GStreamer for Debian ---------------------- This package contains the GStreamer plugin distribution. More information can be found at http://gstreamer.net/ GStreamer plugins are split into a number of packages: pseudo package: gstreamer-all depends on all the packages below plugins without external dependencies: gstreamer-misc many independent plugins plugins with external dependencies: gstreamer-a52dec gstreamer-aa gstreamer-alsa gstreamer-arts gstreamer-artsd gstreamer-audiofile gstreamer-avifile gstreamer-cdparanoia gstreamer-colorspace gstreamer-dvd gstreamer-esd gstreamer-festival gstreamer-flac gstreamer-gnomevfs gstreamer-gsm gstreamer-jpeg gstreamer-mad gstreamer-mikmod gstreamer-mpeg2dec gstreamer-oss gstreamer-sdl gstreamer-sid gstreamer-vorbis gstreamer-x library plugins: gstreamer-lib-misc various libs gstreamer-lib-misc-dev headers for -lib-misc libs Notes: Various plugins in the upstream source are not yet packaged. This is most likely due to: 1 - upstream considers them too unstable 2 - libraries they depend on not being in Debian. Your favorite codec isn't wrapped as a plugin? External programs can be used to process streams. Take a look at "pipefilter" element or try something like this: $ mkfifo fifo $ gst-launch myaudiosrc ! disksink location=fifo & $ cat fifo | my_encoder > output_file mp3 encoding plugins are NOT packaged. Specifically, the LAME plugin is NOT packaged due to Debian not including the LAME libraries. Please see the following links for more information: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/unable-to-package http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-0006/msg01213.html http://www.mp3dev.org/ It was packaged prior to 0.3.3-2. In case anyone is interested the unsupported diff might be found at: http://gstreamer.net/releases/debian/gstreamer-lame-0.3.3-1.diff Ogg Vorbis provides a good alternative to mp3s. Try the gstreamer-vorbis package. For more information: http://www.vorbis.com/ David I. Lehn Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:13:06 -0500