GStreamer 0.1.0 is the result of over a year of development by an international group of open source developers aspiring to build the ultimate streaming media framework. Although not yet completed, this release already boasts many impressive features and capabilities including a streamlined core library, an intelligent autoplugging architecture, extensive developer's tools, and a large plugin library. With all of the features listed below, GStreamer promises to be the leading architecture for streaming media. This intelligent pipeline opens new doors in bringing the latest in audio and video applications to the Linux desktop.
Applications can take advantage of advances in codec and filter technology transparently.
Developers can add new codecs and filters by writing a simple plugin with a clean, optimized interface. Interested developers of the core library, plugins, and applications should subscribe to the gstreamer-devel list. If there is sufficient interest we will create more lists as necessary. There is also a survey up, if you wish to inform us of specific applications you might use GStreamer for, or specific plugins you would like to see.