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- Gstreamer for Debian
- ====================
- This package contains the GStreamer plugin distribution.
-
- More information can be found at http://gstreamer.net/
-
- As of GStreamer plugins version 0.8.0 all packages are versioned and
- parallel installable with other releases with other major.minor
- versions. For example, 0.8.x series is versioned as 0.8 and parallel
- installable with both unversioned 0.6.x series and future 0.9.x and
- beyond. The version part is represented as VER below.
-
- GStreamer plugins are split into a number of packages:
-
- plugins without external dependencies:
-
- gstreamerVER-plugins-bad many independent plugins
-
- documentation:
-
- gstreamerVER-plugins-bad-doc html documentation
-
-
- Notes
- =====
-
- ChangeLog
- ---------
-
- The upstream ChangeLog is not included in all the plugin packages due to its
- large size. Please see upstream sources if you are interested in detailed
- source changes.
-
- Unofficial plugin packages
- --------------------------
-
- Various plugins in the upstream source are not yet packaged or not officially
- supported. This is most likely due to:
-
- * upstream considers them too unstable
- * libraries they depend on are not are yet in Debian or are poorly supported
-
- To build additional unofficial plugin packages:
-
- * Get the source and Debian diff (for example, "apt-get source gst-plugins")
- * Add new package name to the EXTRA_PLUGINS variable in debian/rules
- * Add appropriate dependency and control info to debian/extra
- * Add a .install file for the package
- * Rebuild
-
- Currently available untested and unsupported info has been added for:
- * gstreamer-amrwb
- * gstreamer-faac
- * gstreamer-mpeg2enc
- * gstreamer-xvid
-
- mp3 encoding plugins are NOT officially packaged. Specifically, the LAME
- plugin is NOT packaged due to Debian not including the LAME libraries.
- Please see the following links for more information:
-
- http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package
- http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0006/msg01213.html
- http://www.mp3dev.org/
-
- Ogg Vorbis provides a good alternative to mp3s. Try the
- gstreamer-vorbis package. For more information:
-
- http://www.vorbis.com/
-
-
- External tools support
- ----------------------
-
- Your favorite codec isn't wrapped as a plugin? External programs can be
- used to process streams. Take a look at "pipefilter" element or try
- something like this (untested):
-
- $ mkfifo fifo
- $ gst-launch myaudiosrc ! filesink location=fifo &
- $ cat fifo | my_encoder > output_file
-
-
- David I. Lehn <dlehn@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 2004 04:38:37 -0500
-
- update:
- Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org> Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:00:21 +0100
-