gstreamer/README
Thomas Vander Stichele e00bcd6792 registry handling changes read up on it in docs/random/thomasvs/registry if interested net effect should be transpare...
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registry handling changes
read up on it in docs/random/thomasvs/registry if interested
net effect should be transparent; ie. it will keep on working, but will
be more flexible than before.  Testing with garnome seems to work now.
Should probably be rewritten completely, together with plugin loading, but
only after we spec it out ;) It's a bit messy.
2002-04-12 09:53:00 +00:00

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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.
Developer note: 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
cutting-edge tools.
ATM, most of us have at least these versions :
* autoconf 2.52 (NOT 2.52d)
* automake 1.5
* libtool 1.4
* pkg-config 0.8.0
autogen.sh will check for these versions and complain if you don't have
them.
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.