what is importance of gst--ffmpeg

sumeet inani · 04-26-2009, 09:49 AM

I installed gst-ffmpeg from tarball and it said a lot of encoders,decoders,muxer will be enabled.What media player can play my video files now.Totem still asks for plugins.I know about mplayer but I want to know utility of gst-ffmpeg.
Same way I installed gst-fluendo mpeg mux& demux from tarball.

David the H. · 04-26-2009, 02:22 PM

ffmpeg is the encoder/decoder frontend for libavformat and libavcodec, catch-all libraries that can handle dozens of multimedia formats. I assume that gst here means gstreamer, so it's probably the plugin that allows gstreamer to call on ffmpeg to help decode otherwise unsupported formats. I assume that most players that use gstreamer as the backend can take advantage of it, though it might depend on how they were compiled or set up.

sumeet inani · 05-27-2009, 05:59 AM

Totem says it is based on gstreamer 0.10.13 so what benefit I would have gotten on installing gst-ffmpeg

sumeet inani · 06-04-2009, 11:24 PM

My computer is not connected to internet but I can download required files from cyber cafe & install them.
Totem always asks for varieties of demuxer plugin.Where can I get them?