[gst-devel] gstreamer core optimizations.

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:30 +0200, David SIORPAES wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for sure you won't be able to run on an embedded platform each and
> every GStreamer plugin. But, by simply cutting out plugins you don't
> need, you can end up with a suitable embedded-friendly Gstreamer
> framework. Nokia 770 and N800 devices are running Gstreamer without a
> problem.
> 
> In our experience Gstreamer is not CPU hungry, on the contrary. For
> example, you could not notice any CPU load difference comparing a
> mad-based mp3 application decoder using gstreamer and madplay.

unless it needs to resample .... in which case it might burn 30% of the
total CPU on a moderately modern opteron. sometimes, licenses hurt in
deep ways ...

--p