Understanding the practical uses of GStreamer in relationship to web browsers.
 

I am a Gentoo user and I am building a version of surf which is a WebKitgtk based browser and I am wrestling with the idea of enabling the compile flag for GStreamer and I just cant wrap my head around what GStreamer does in terms of end user functionality. In terms of multimedia functionality & streaming audio/video what does GStreamer provide?

The framework is based on plugins that provide the various codec and other functionality.

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/da...gstreamer.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GStreamer

It's a programming library for creating media players. Components it provides are described further in the manual referenced by Ztcoracat. Compiling and running a simple example from the manual gives a rough idea. (I recommend examples in Python, not C.)

Im trying to wrap my head around the term framework. Is gstreamer an IPC like dbus or something closer to pulseaudio.

I think it's closer to pulseaudio-

http://tuxradar.com/content/how-it-w...udio-explained