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+# GStreamer Editing Services
+
+The "GStreamer Editing Services" is a library to simplify the creation
+of multimedia editing applications. Based on the GStreamer multimedia framework
+and the GNonLin set of plugins, its goals are to suit all types of editing-related
+applications.
+
+The GStreamer Editing Services are cross-platform and work on most UNIX-like
+platform as well as Windows. It is released under the GNU Library General Public License
+(GNU LGPL).
+
+## Goals of GStreamer Editing Services
+
+The GStreamer multimedia framework and the accompanying GNonLin set of
+plugins for non-linear editing offer all the building blocks for:
+
+- Decoding and encoding to a wide variety of formats, through all the
+ available GStreamer plugins.
+
+- Easily choosing segments of streams and arranging them through time
+ through the GNonLin set of plugins.
+
+But all those building blocks only offer stream-level access, which
+results in developers who want to write non-linear editors to write a
+consequent amount of code to get to the level of *non-linear editing*
+notions which are closer and more meaningful for the end-user (and
+therefore the application).
+
+The GStreamer Editing Services (hereafter GES) aims to fill the gap
+between GStreamer/GNonLin and the application developer by offering a
+series of classes to simplify the creation of many kind of
+editing-related applications.
+
+## Architecture
+
+### Timeline and TimelinePipeline
+
+The most top-level object encapsulating every other object is the
+#GESTimeline. It is the central object for any editing project.
+
+The `GESTimeline` is a `GstElement`. It can therefore be used in any
+GStreamer pipeline like any other object.
+
+### Tracks and Layers
+
+The GESTimeline can contain two types of objects (seen in
+"Layers and Tracks"):
+
+- Layers - Corresponds to the user-visible arrangement of clips, and
+ what you primarily interact with as an application developer. A
+ minimalistic timeline would only have one layer, but a more complex
+ editing application could use as many as needed.
+
+- Tracks - Corresponds to the output streams in GStreamer. A typical
+ GESTimeline, aimed at a video editing application, would have an
+ audio track and a video track. A GESTimeline for an audio editing
+ application would only require an audio track. Multiple layers can
+ be related to each track.
+
+![Layers and Tracks](images/layer_track_overview.png)
+
+In order to reduce even more the amount of GStreamer interaction the
+application developer has to deal with, a convenience GstPipeline has
+been made available specifically for Timelines : #GESPipeline.
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+ges_excludes = []
+foreach f: ['gesmarshal.h', 'ges-internal.h', 'ges-auto-transition.[ch]',
+ 'ges-structured-interface.[ch]', 'ges-structure-parser.[ch]',
+ 'ges-smart-video-mixer.[ch]', 'gstframepositioner.[ch]',
+ 'ges/lex.priv_ges_parse_yy.c']
+ ges_excludes += [join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), '..', '..', 'ges', f)]
+endforeach
+
+hotdoc = import('hotdoc')
+gst_editin_services_doc = hotdoc.generate_doc('gst-editing-services',
+ project_version: apiversion,
+ extra_assets: [join_paths(meson.current_source_dir(), 'images')],
+ c_sources: ['../../ges/ges.h', '../../ges/*.[hc]'],
+ gi_sources: [ges_gir[0].full_path()],
+ c_source_filters: ges_excludes,
+ sitemap: 'sitemap.txt',
+ index: 'index.md',
+ gi_index: 'index.md',
+ gi_smart_index: true,
+ gi_order_generated_subpages: true,
+ dependencies: [ges_dep],
+ disable_incremental_build: true,
+)
-docconf = configuration_data()
+if hotdoc_p.found() and build_gir
+ build_hotdoc = true
+ subdir('hotdoc')
+else
+ docconf = configuration_data()
-docconf.set('GST_API_VERSION', apiversion)
-docconf.set('PACKAGE_VERSION', gst_version)
-docconf.set('PLUGINDIR', '@0@/lib/gstreamer-1.0'.format(get_option('prefix')))
+ docconf.set('GST_API_VERSION', apiversion)
+ docconf.set('PACKAGE_VERSION', gst_version)
+ docconf.set('PLUGINDIR', '@0@/lib/gstreamer-1.0'.format(get_option('prefix')))
-version_entities = configure_file(input : 'version.entities.in',
- output : 'version.entities',
- configuration : docconf)
+ version_entities = configure_file(input : 'version.entities.in',
+ output : 'version.entities',
+ configuration : docconf)
-subdir('libs')
+ subdir('libs')
+endif