My experience with gstreamer consists almost entirely of battling with the system's package manager trying to install whichever codec packs I need and then conv

My experience with gstreamer consists almost entirely of battling with the system's package manager trying to install whichever codec packs I need and then convincing a gstreamer-powered media player to recognize said plugins and actually play my media. This process ended in frustration more often than it should've. By contrast ffmpeg-powered projects tend to just work out of the box with practically any set of files imaginable… much more pleasant.