A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle
A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle
Posted Sep 29, 2008 0:02 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle by obi
Parent article: A Guide Through The Linux Sound API Jungle
gstreamer basically consists of two pieces: the core, which provides
plumbing to connect together plugins, and the plugins. The majority of
those plugins are interfaces to other audio/video libraries (everything
from monsters like ffmpeg to little things like libogg or libmad). As
such, gstreamer has to track changes to the APIs of the libraries used by
all those plugins. (Thankfully, most are quite stable, but not all:
pulseaudio has bumped API in the last couple of years, and ffmpeg hardly
ever stops changing...)
plumbing to connect together plugins, and the plugins. The majority of
those plugins are interfaces to other audio/video libraries (everything
from monsters like ffmpeg to little things like libogg or libmad). As
such, gstreamer has to track changes to the APIs of the libraries used by
all those plugins. (Thankfully, most are quite stable, but not all:
pulseaudio has bumped API in the last couple of years, and ffmpeg hardly
ever stops changing...)