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Genuine question: Are there any actual examples of giant companies using gstreamer? Why I ask is that pretty much the only reason I have gstreamer installed on
by kiwijamo 5y ago
Genuine question: Are there any actual examples of giant companies using gstreamer?
Why I ask is that pretty much the only reason I have gstreamer installed on my pesonal laptop is to satisfy certain GNOME dependencies (due to GNOME, understandably, dogfooding its own stuff). Everything else (including apps I use daily e.g. mpv, Firefox, etc) depends on ffmpeg.
$ sudo pacman -Rs gstreamer
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by cheese
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by gnome-shell
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by gst-plugins-base-libs
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by libcheese
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by webkit2gtk
:: removing gstreamer breaks dependency 'gstreamer' required by webkit2gtk-4.1
- squeaky-clean 5y agoI work at a company acquired by Motorola Solutions and we use gstreamer, but I don't know about MSI overall, just our division. We also use ffmpeg for some things, lol.
- eschneider 5y agoOverall, they do not use gstreamer. You guys are the outliers. :)
- icelancer 5y agogstreamer is ubiquitous in research labs that depend on video - extremely common
- rurban 5y agoYes. On Windows actually :) Debian is not the best maintained distro.
- laumars 5y agoDebian doesn’t use pacman. Odds are it was Arch (though pacman has been ported to other platforms).
- kiwijamo 5y agoIt was indeed Arch. Not sure about the comment about Debian as IIRC it's more or less the same in Debian. Using gstreamer seems to be more of a GNOME thing than anything to do with distros.
- ncmncm 5y agoDebian tried to switch from ffmpeg to libav. It didn't turn out well. But it generally gives me no trouble.
- jon-wood 5y agoRDK is the firmware used on a wide variety of set-top boxes, routers, and IoT devices: https://rdkcentral.com/ https://rdkcentral.com/ The core media pipeline is almost all gstreamer, ffmpeg, and just because I think it’ll surprise some people, Wayland.
- dmr_92 5y agoDon't know if you'd consider them giant, but a former colleague tells me that Pexip uses Gstreamer for video-wrangling. (Hearsay, admittedly)
- roeles 5y agoI have used gstreamer for the Dutch Railways, to stream the announcements to passengers in certain types of rolling stock. The announcements are generated as text, go through a text-to-speech engine and are then streamed to the rolling stock. As you'd expect, every manufacturer uses a different method to broadcast the announcement.
- monsecchris 5y agoNVidia uses it a lot on their Jetson platform.
- eschneider 5y agoYes. It’s embedded in a surprisingly large number of embedded devices.