[ANN] gst-av 0.5.2

[Felipe Contreras]

Hi,

gst-av is a GStreamer plug-in to provide support for libav (fork of
FFmpeg), it is similar to gst-ffmpeg, but without GStreamer politics,
which means all libav plugins are supported, even if there are native
GStreamer alternatives; VP8, MP3, Ogg, Vorbis, AAC, etc. and only the
important stuff for now: encoders and decoders.

In addition, it is much simpler (2654 vs 16575 LOC), has better
performance, uses the system's libav, has a bit of extra features
(such as less latency), and doesn’t use deprecated API’s. At some
point I measured exactly how much improvement compared to gst-ffmpeg
there is[1]; it’s not much, but it’s some.

IOW; it’s possible that gst-av is the only GStreamer codec plug-in you
would ever need :)

Currently the supported codecs are:

  audio decoding: Vorbis, FLAC, MP3
  video decoding: H.263, H.264, MPEG-4, WMV, VP8
  video encoding: H.263, H.264

But it should be easy to add support for more formats.

Currently the ogg-support package for Nokia N900 is in the process of
using gst-av, and all the identified issues have been fixed, so at
least there's a certain amount of people that have tested the audio
decoding part.

BTW. It works for both libav and FFmpeg (so far).

The project is hosted on Google Code:
http://code.google.com/p/gst-av/

Enjoy ;)

[1] http://felipec.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/gst-av-0-3-better-performance-for-vorbis-and-mp3/

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Felipe Contreras