OSNews: GStreamer–Where We Are and Where We Are Going

“About 3 years ago I was looking around for something to add
multimedia capabilities to my GNOME desktop. At that point in time
there wasn’t really that much around. I think the most advanced
video player for Linux in those days was XAnim, which was neither
were moving quickly or could qualify as free software, except in
the beer context. Projects like Xine and mplayer had either just
started up or not come into existence yet.

“Also my interest wasn’t purely aimed at playing back media
files on my own machine, but also to see if there was something out
there I could help push forward to give Linux developers and users
something competitive to Microsoft’s DirectMedia and Apple’s
Quicktime. Which meant I was looking for something which would also
allow developers to relatively easily do more advanced stuff.

“Anyway I started looking around and discovered GStreamer. I
guess what pulled me in was the screenshots of the pipeline editor
which gave me the clear feeling that this was more than just a
playback application, but something that could be used for a much
wider range of applications. Based on that I decided to do an
interview with the developers for the news website I was involved
with at the time (now gone). I guess I never left after doing
that…”

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