1 This is GStreamer, a framework for streaming media. The
2 fundamental design comes from the video pipeline at Oregon Graduate
3 Institute, as well as some ideas from DirectMedia. It's based on plug-ins
4 that will provide the various codec and other functionality. The
5 interface hopefully is generic enough for various companies (ahem, Apple)
6 to release binary codecs for Linux, until such time as they get a clue and
10 Developer note: When building from CVS sources, you will need to run
11 autogen.sh to generate the build system files.
13 GStreamer is cutting-edge stuff. To be a CVS developer, you need
16 ATM, most of us have at least these versions :
18 * autoconf 2.52 (NOT 2.52d)
23 autogen.sh will check for these versions and complain if you don't have
26 Check autogen.sh options by running autogen.sh --help
28 autogen.sh can pass on arguments to configure - you just need to separate them
29 from autogen.sh with -- between the two.
30 prefix has been added to autogen.sh but will be passed on to configure because
31 some build scripts like that.