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Posted Oct 15, 2009 10:12 UTC (Thu) by Uraeus (guest, #33755)
In reply to: API target by magnus
Parent article: LPC: The past, present, and future of Linux audio

GStreamer is not focused on 'media player' type applications at all, GStreamer was designed from the very beginning to have a much wider use area. There is a large host of applications using GStreamer which are not media player style applications like Buzztard, Jokosher, PiTiVi, Arista, Transmageddon, Empathy and so on.

As for using an application for the data, that has been addressed quite some time ago and there are now two GStreamer elements called appsrc and appsink which specfically targets getting or sending data to an application.

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Posted Oct 17, 2009 21:21 UTC (Sat) by magnus (subscriber, #34778) [Link]

OK. I was speaking from my own experience from a couple of years ago, and I don't recall that appsrc/appsink existed at that time.

Still, I don't think that it is obvious how one should port an audio app using another audio API (ALSA for example) to use GStreamer for output. GStreamer seems to be designed more like a toolkit which you have to design your app around (like GTK for graphics) rather than just the audio bottom layer that most other API:s provide.