Gstreamer vs ffmpeg is like microservices vs monolith. With similar problems. Microservices look nice in theory. Unfortunately they turn out to be highly comple

Gstreamer vs ffmpeg is like microservices vs monolith. With similar problems. Microservices look nice in theory. Unfortunately they turn out to be highly complex to manage. Gstreamer is way more complex to use than it appears at first glance and connecting various filters often fails for reasons hard to understand and requires hours of fiddling to get it to work.