On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 05:52:00PM +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > Gstreamer is separated into plugins. Applications link against the core > library and the base plugin libraries only. > When a gstreamer client tries to play a mp3 file, gstreamer looks for > an installed relevant plugin. If it finds one, it plays the file. If it > doesn't, it fails to play the file.
This is pretty much exactly how libvlc works, as far as I know. One difference is that gstreamer actually contains implementations of patented methods, and apparently VLC doesn't. -- Martin Sandsmark >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
