GStreamer multimedia framework
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Thomas Vander Stichele 1944240a98 backport fixes
Original commit message from CVS:
backport fixes
2002-09-23 06:04:32 +00:00
common@2f6d9cfdaa added transfig 2002-09-08 17:37:05 +00:00
components changed libgst -> libgstreamer to comply with namespace issues with gnu smalltalk various other fixes 2002-02-10 17:09:53 +00:00
debian gstreamer-code.files: change to libgst*scheduler, since the scheduler names have changed. 2002-09-20 03:35:46 +00:00
docs some fixups 2002-09-22 22:01:13 +00:00
examples another example 2002-09-15 21:33:26 +00:00
gst backport fixes 2002-09-23 06:04:32 +00:00
include removal of //-style comments don't link plugins to core libs -- the versioning is done internally to the plugins with... 2002-03-19 04:10:13 +00:00
libs fixes http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91179 make mine beer an ice-tea 2002-08-26 15:31:21 +00:00
plugins/elements backport fixes 2002-09-23 06:04:32 +00:00
scripts check out cvs code, autogen, make, make distcheck if you have spare machines at work sitting idly during the night, r... 2001-12-14 09:44:11 +00:00
tests test commentation 2002-09-23 06:03:17 +00:00
testsuite new thread test, not yet active 2002-09-12 19:26:54 +00:00
tools backports and fixes 2002-09-23 06:02:17 +00:00
.gitignore added a bunch of cvsignore stuff off of a fresh checkout and build i will win the race to max LOC changed ;-) 2002-03-25 05:01:02 +00:00
.gitmodules Added a first stab at a better clocking system. 2002-02-03 20:07:09 +00:00
ABOUT-NLS added blank file to keep autoconf happy, fill it in later 2001-05-28 19:59:25 +00:00
AUTHORS added myself 2001-12-12 23:45:40 +00:00
autogen.sh for better or worse, make distcheck now passes again 2002-07-01 13:02:03 +00:00
ChangeLog registry handling changes read up on it in docs/random/thomasvs/registry if interested net effect should be transpare... 2002-04-12 09:53:00 +00:00
configure.ac aclocal helper thingie 2002-09-18 21:44:00 +00:00
COPYING initial checkin 2000-01-30 09:03:00 +00:00
COPYING.LIB initial checkin 2000-01-30 09:03:00 +00:00
DEVEL more registry fixes 2002-04-12 18:50:48 +00:00
DOCBUILDING more docbuilding notes 2002-04-12 09:43:11 +00:00
gstreamer-uninstalled.pc.in make the include location more visible 2002-06-17 01:53:36 +00:00
gstreamer.pc.in as promised, the header changes and some of wingo's virtual fixes as well by accident 2002-06-22 23:17:44 +00:00
gstreamer.spec.in buildfix 2002-09-17 15:07:24 +00:00
idiottest.mak idiottest was failing because of change of PLUGIN_USE_SRCDIR to 2001-06-19 12:53:05 +00:00
INSTALL initial checkin 2000-01-30 09:03:00 +00:00
LICENSE Adding explicit license information, since quite a large number of source files don't have the LGPL header. This is ... 2000-08-05 03:53:00 +00:00
ltmain.sh Totally rewritten registry handling. 2002-05-08 20:40:48 +00:00
Makefile.am merge from BRANCH-RELEASE-0_4_0 2002-07-09 10:27:22 +00:00
NEWS docs changes 2001-12-11 22:55:55 +00:00
README yay for cookies 2002-09-23 05:26:44 +00:00
RELEASE merge from BRANCH-RELEASE-0_4_0 2002-07-09 10:27:22 +00:00
REQUIREMENTS merge from BRANCH-RELEASE-0_4_0 2002-07-09 10:27:22 +00:00
stamp.h.in initial checkin 2000-01-30 09:03:00 +00:00
TODO Updated the TODO list 2002-09-10 21:11:08 +00:00

WHAT IT IS
----------
This is GStreamer, a framework for streaming media.  The
fundamental design comes from the video pipeline at Oregon Graduate
Institute, as well as some ideas from DirectMedia.  It's based on plug-ins
that will provide the various codec and other functionality.  The
interface hopefully is generic enough for various companies (ahem, Apple)
to release binary codecs for Linux, until such time as they get a clue and
release the source.

COMPILING FROM SOURCE
---------------------
- check output of ./configure --help to see if any options apply to you
- run
  ./configure
  make

  to build GStreamer.
- if you want to install it (not required), run
  make install
- You should create a registry for things to work.
  If you ran make install in the previous step, run
  gst-register
  as root.

  If you didn't install, run
  tools/gst-register
  as a normal user.

- try out a simple test:
  gst-launch fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink
  (If you didn't install GStreamer, again prefix gst-launch with tools/)

  If it outputs a bunch of messages from fakesrc and fakesink, everything is
  ok.

- After this, you're ready to install gst-plugins, which will provide the
  functionality you're probably looking for by now, so go on and read
  that README.

COMPILING FROM CVS
------------------
When building from CVS sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate 
the build system files.

GStreamer is cutting-edge stuff.  To be a CVS developer, you need 
what used to be considered cutting-edge tools.

ATM, most of us have at least these versions :

* autoconf	2.52	(NOT 2.52d)
* automake	1.5
* libtool	1.4     (NOT Gentoo's genetic failure 1.4.2)
* pkg-config    0.8.0

autogen.sh will check for these versions and complain if you don't have 
them.  You can also specify specific versions of automake and autoconf with
--with-automake and --with-autoconf

Check autogen.sh options by running autogen.sh --help

autogen.sh can pass on arguments to configure - you just need to separate them
from autogen.sh with -- between the two.
prefix has been added to autogen.sh but will be passed on to configure because
some build scripts like that.

When you have done this once, you can use autoregen.sh to re-autogen with
the last passed options as a handy shortcut.  Use it.

After the autogen.sh stage, you can follow the directions listed in
"COMPILING FROM SOURCE"