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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With release 0.4.6 of GSVideo (download here) users on Mac and Windows don’t need to do any extra install, since the gstreamer binaries are included inside the library package itself (Mac version uses the gstreamer binaries that are bundled with the current nightly build of songbird 1.1) . Version 0.4.5 on Windows already had this advantage, but it also presented a number of bugs that probably made it somewhat useless (most notably, gsvideo wouldn’t not be work when installed in a path containing spaces), and the included version of gstreamer had some library dependency issues. GSVideo 0.4.6 solved these two problems.
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This is a short post, just to give a “preview” of the work currently undergoing on OSX and GStreamer. A year ago, Ole Andre Ravnas, the author of OABuild, released a proof-of-concept GStreamer plugin to do video capture on OSX. Here is the full discussion that took place on bugzilla at that time, and here the plugin code that Ole Andre released. Read More »
