gstreamer-0.6.0

Introduction to gstreamer

Download location (HTTP):       http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gstreamer/0.6/gstreamer-0.6.0.tar.bz2
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gstreamer/0.6/gstreamer-0.6.0.tar.bz2
Version used:                   0.6.0
Package size:                   1.1 MB
Estimated Disk space required:  65.2 MB
Estimated build time:           3.95 SBU

The gstreamer package contains a framework for streaming media. This is useful for interfacing with binary codecs.

gstreamer depends on:
libgnomeui-2.2.0.1

Installation of gstreamer

Install gstreamer by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX --localstatedir=/var/log && make && make install && gst-register

Command explanations

--localstatedir=/var/lib : This switch puts gst-register's cache in /var/lib/cache instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/var/cache.

Contents

The gstreamer package contains libgstreamer libraries and libgst libraries.