GStreamer is a library that allows the construction of graphs of media-handling components, ranging from simple Vorbis and Ogg playback to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently. Developers can add new codecs and filters by writing a simple plugin with a clean, generic interface.
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Here are some key features of "GStreamer Plugins Ugly":
· Parallel installability with 0.8.x series
· Threadsafe design and API
· new id3 demuxer (replaces the mad one in gst-plugins-ugly)
· memleak fixes in avidemux, wavparse, level, smoke
· ports of multipart,
· fixes in flacdec, flxdec, rtp
· documentation updates on videomixer
· added new sunaudiosink, gconfaudiosrc and gconfvideosrc elements