One of the main limitations for a wider adoption of GStreamer on the Mac platform is the lack of a binary package installer. MacPorts certainly offers a great help to get GStreamer compiled from the source packages on OSX, and the Songbird music player has been making significant inroads by adopting GStreamer as its main media core on the Windows, Linux and OSX platforms (the GStreamer build environment used by Songbird can be browsed online here).
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I was finally able to make gsvideo work on OSX (tested on Leopard with an 20″ iMac)! The problem was not as much as with gsvideo itself, which needed just some small changes in order to set the directory where GStreamer libraries get copied. The difficult part was to have GStreamer actually installed on OSX, for which I used MacPorts. This involves first installing the Apple development tools (XCode) and then getting your hands a little bit dirty in the command line. The good news is that the version of GStreamer available on MacPorts has been recently updated to the latest released one, so almost every plugin and codec is working right now (except camera capture).
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Wayne Meissner, the author of the java bindings for GStreamer, wrote detailed instructions to compile the latest version of GStreamer and all the plugins on OSX:
http://code.google.com/p/gstreamer-java/wiki/GstreamerOnMacOSX
