TiMidity++ is an open source MIDI to WAVE converter and player. It uses Gravis Ultrasound-compatible patch files and/or SoundFont Banks to generate digital audio data from general MIDI files. The audio data can be played through any sound device or stored on disk.

On a fast machine, music can be played in real time. TiMidity++ is written in C and runs under Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, SunOS, MacOSX, and Win32, and porting to other systems with gcc should be easy.

The original version of this program was written by Tuukka Toivonen <tt@cgs.fi> (he discontinued development because he was too busy with work). Since then, Masanao Izumo and others have begun to improve it, and now TiMidity++ has officially been released.

Things distributed here are experimental versions of TiMidity++, that may not be stable, but have much enhanced functions.

Download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/timidity/ TiMidity++-2.13.2.tar.bz2

T2 source: timidity++.conf
T2 source: timidity++.desc
T2 source: timidity++.cache

Build time (on reference hardware): 40% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.94 MB, 19 files

Dependencies (build time detected): alsa-lib bash binutils bzip2 cf coreutils diffutils emacs expat findutils fontconfig freetype gcc glibc grep imake lesstif libelf libice libsm libx11 libxau libxdmcp libxext libxft libxmu libxp libxpm libxrender libxt linux-header make mktemp net-tools sed sysfiles tar util-linux xaw3d xextproto xproto zlib

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).

Open source products comprise the work of many collaborators -- sometimes thousands of them, and often separated by oceans. Each person works on small portions of a project, and anyone is welcome to contribute. The finished product will be available freely for anyone to download and, in most cases, modify.

All very touchy-feely, carey-sharey, but why should you care about open source? You should care because the vast majority of common applications, even complex commercial stuff such as Adobe Photoshop, Windows Media Player and Microsoft Office, have free, open-source alternatives. And this point is worth reiterating: open-source software is free. No cost. Zero. Zilch.

We've put together a collection of ten free open-source applications that will potentially save you hundreds of pounds. We've outlined their pros and cons and compared them to the nearest commercial alternative

Paid-for version: Microsoft Office
Open-source alternative: OpenOffice

OpenOffice is a feature-packed alternative to Microsoft Office. It's developed by Sun Microsystems in collaboration with a community of dedicated contributors. The primary applications of OpenOffice consist Writer (word processor), Calc (spreadsheet), Impress (presentations), Base (databases), Draw (vector graphics editor) and Math (mathematical formulae editor, similar to Microsoft Equation Editor).

The good: For home users and families it offers everything you'll need to write letters, publish documents, formulate graphs, build slideshows and design simple Web pages. It looks and works like Microsoft Word and because it's free, it'll save you about £119 -- the cost of Microsoft Office 2007. For families, OpenOffice is an absolute must.

The bad: Microsoft Office comes with Outlook, which is vital for most business users. For this reason, OpenOffice isn't an alternative to Microsoft's corporate solutions. It's also lacks some of the advanced design functions of the 2007 version of Word.

Conclusion: OpenOffice will be perfect for most home users. Business users will almost certainly need Outlook, though OO may still provide all the functionality needed for word processing and spreadsheet work.

Download it here: openoffice.org

Paid-for version: Microsoft Windows Media Centre
Open-source alternative: MediaPortal

MediaPortal is an open-source alternative to Microsoft's Media Centre and offers PVR functionality as well as management of all your videos, photos, music and radio stations. It runs on Windows and has the ability to display RSS feeds and weather information. The attractive GUI can be re-skinned with loads of free and professional-looking skins and a vast array of plugins written by the community extend functionality in loads of ways.

The Good: It's an extremely easy piece of software to use and looks and feels just like Windows Media Centre. For use as a living-room PVR and a media handler it's superb. More advanced users will appreciate the many layers of customisability offered, too. High-definition content is fully compatible as long as your PC is up to the job, so wiring your box up to that shiny new HDTV will be no problem.

The Bad: The software suffers a few bugs that could be something of a hurdle for newbies. It's in the advanced pre-release stages, meaning the team developing it hasn't deemed it suitable for general release, but it's well on its way. More tech-savvy users will work around any bugs they uncover, but technophobes may want to stick to Media Centre until a final release has been made.

Conclusion: MediaPortal is ideal for anyone who isn't afraid of looking at a program's preferences screen. If looking at settings confuses and scared you into a dark corner, stick with Microsoft's Media Centre for now. Otherwise, go grab yourself MediaPortal, because it's bloody marvellous.

Download it here: team-mediaportal.com

Paid-for version: Windows Media Player
Open-source alternative: VLC media player

VLC is an exceptionally functional media player that not only handles almost any media format you throw at it, but will stream stuff from the Web and play your DVDs. It's also a great tool for anyone who downloads large video files, since VLC can play incomplete or damaged media.

The Good: For the home and for the office, VLC will work for you. If you use Windows, Mac OS X, Linux or BeOS, VLC will work for you. Almost regardless of what media formats you use, VLC will work for you. If you're an absolute newbie to computers, VLC will work for you. Do you see where we're going with this?

The Bad: VLC won't let you sync your media library with your new MP3 player. True, Windows Media Player doesn't work with an iPod anyway, and the vast majority of other models that claim to need WMP will actually let you drag and drop your content into their memory through Windows Explorer anyway. There are no radio services directly available through VLC, so if the integration of these services is important to you, you might still want to have WMP sticking around in the background.

Conclusion: For almost all uses, VLC will suit the beginner and the amateur. The experts will already be using it. There are loads of skins available to make it look much prettier than it is by default, and its undeniably superb functionality makes it a crucial download for any computer user.

Download it here: videolan.org/vlc

Paid-for version: WinZip
Open-source alternative: 7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver that handles not only its own file compression format, but also the common .zip format, meaning it's ideal for everyday home and office use. It'll also unzip other popular archiving formats such as RAR, CAB and ISO. 7-Zip can be integrated into the Windows Shell for easy right-clicking compression of desktop files and folders.

The Good: Zipping and unzipping .zip files is the main function of the popular commercial application WinZip. 7-Zip performs this task without requiring any purchases. For this reason, it's a solid alternative for most people. It's also capable of encrypting archives for that added peace of mind.

The Bad: WinZip offers a vast array of features for advanced users, such as intelligent compression, which chooses the most efficient archiving method based on the type of files being compressed. WinZip will also let you schedule backups and periodic and automatic updating of existing backup archives.

Conclusion: Home users won't use most of the features in WinZip, so 7-Zip is highly recommended. It's lightweight, easy to use and will let you send batches of photos to friends as well as back up archives to DVDs.

Download it here: 7-zip.org

Paid-for version: Adobe Photoshop
Open-source alternative: GIMP

GIMP is a package for creating digital images and manipulating photographs. It's been in production for 12 years and is compatible with most of the commonly used image formats such as JPG, TIFF, PNG, BMP and GIF, as well as most Adobe Photoshop and PaintShop Pro files.

The Good: It's no secret that many people download illegal copies of the enormously feature-packed Adobe Photoshop purely for cropping and resizing photos. GIMP takes care of this task without the risk of lawsuits. It's also got an array of tools for creating original raster graphics. The whole colour spectrum can be used with existing brushes or user-created ones, an array of filters and effects can be applied -- drop shadow being a popular choice. Once you've had some practice it's very easy to use and quickly proves itself to be a capable image editor.

The Bad: GIMP doesn't offer the extensive design and manipulation options that the £500 industry-standard Photoshop offers, though it has never aimed to. There really isn't any bad side to GIMP, considering what it's capable of doing. If you're used to editing images in Windows Paint, you'll need to spend a few hours getting to know it, but that's true with all applications that aren't aimed at children and the artistically backwards.

Conclusion: There's no need to illegally download spend £500 on Photoshop if all you're doing is resizing images, applying fancy effects and cropping photos, because GIMP is extremely capable at these tasks. If you're looking for a career in design however, you might still want to keep saving for the Adobe standard.

Download it here: gimp.org

Commercial version: Google Reader, Bloglines
Open-source alternative: RSSOwl

RSSOwl is a simple and lightweight desktop feed reader. It offers multiple viewing options and easy importing of XML files.

The good: The 'Owl offers an uncluttered interface that allows easy navigation of multiple feeds. A Web browser is built in, so there's no need to leave the application to click through the Web sites. The application itself is extremely fast and very friendly, though rather basic, aesthetically. There's a feature that lets you enter a Web site's URL and RSSOwl will scour it for RSS feeds, which can then be imported with the click of a button. It's even possible to export all feed entries to PDF form for easy offline reading.

The bad: The built-in Web browser is Internet Explorer, raising the usual security issues common to IE.

Conclusion: Since you need to be online to use an RSS reader properly, RSSOwl is a great application. The ability to export feed items to offline documents could be a huge bonus over Web-based apps such as Google Reader.

Download it here: rssowl.org

Commercial version: Windows Live Messenger, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger
Open-source alternative: Pidgin

Pidgin combines the IM functionality of popular IM clients such as Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger into one lightweight application. This allows for seamless use of multiple clients and address books from the comfort of a single window.

The good: On computers with limited RAM, Pidgin does away with the need for multiple individual clients, which can greatly increase available memory. Multiple chat networks can be used simultaneously so there's no restriction on what networks you're connected to at any given time. It'll run on all the popular operating systems and a text-based alternative is available for anyone wanting to use the program within a console window.

The bad: It's not as attractive as the standard IM chat clients and it's not blindingly obvious which contacts are part of each network.

Conclusion: If you'd like all your contacts in one place, Pidgin is a superb option. Its functionality is flawless and features such as emoticons and file transfers are seamlessly integrated. It's not a particularly attractive program though, so if aesthetics are important to you, you might want to stick to separate chat clients.

Download it here: pidgin.im

Paid version: Nero Burning Rom
Open source alternative: InfraRecorder

InfraRecorder is an open-source alternative to commercial CD- and DVD-burning software. It was first developed during Google's Summer of Code in 2006. It uses a standard graphical interface for creating disc images and an express creation wizard that helps guide you through the process.

The good: InfraRecorder is a really capable piece of software that allows you to burn all the usual kinds of CD and DVD types. It also supports the creation of dual-layer DVDs and the burning of ISO and BIN images. We got perfect results from discs burned with the software and had no trouble using it from start to finish.

The bad: The interface is quite basic and not as accessible to less tech-savvy users. More sophisticated and well-designed wizards in programs such as Nero are better at easing newbies through the creation process. The program is also a little slow when preparing to burn a disc.

Conclusion: If you're used to manually creating DVDs and CDs, InfraRecorder is perfect. It worked flawlessly for us and produced great results. Technophobes, however, will prefer the idiot-proof wizards provided by commercial software bundled with pre-built PCs.

Download it here: infrarecorder.sourceforge.net

Paid-for version: Adobe Audition
Open-source alternative: Audacity

Audacity is a digital audio editor and mixing platform, complete with a graphical user interface and cross-platform OS support. It's one of the most popular open-source downloads in the world.

The good: One of the most common uses of the program is audio file conversion, as it handles a wide range of audio formats, including FLAC and OGG. It's easy to record, cut and edit sounds, remove noise, adjust levels and alter equaliser settings. An array of plugins allow you to extend core functionality, such as overlaying sound effects and samples. Audacity is a superb package for home users who want more control over their audio than the super-awesome-amazing Sound Recorder that comes with Windows allows.

The bad: While it's superbly kitted out for home users and podcasters, it can't match commercial products like Adobe's Audition software for studio recording. The GUI is also rather plain and not as easy to read as some paid-for alternatives.

Conclusion: Be prepared for a steep learning curve, but rest assured it'll pay off. Audacity offers a great set of features and is suited for loads of purposes. If you're setting up a home studio, you'll want to look for something vastly more capable. But for anyone who just needs to record, cut, manipulate and export, it's a killer.

Download it here: audacity.sourceforge.net

Paid-for version: Internet Explorer
Open-source alternative: Mozilla Firefox

You didn't think we'd forget the 'Fox, did you? With over 400 million downloads and counting, the Firefox Web browser is more popular than even the most downloaded application of all time on SourceForge.net, eMule. It has snagged almost 15 per cent of the global browser market as of October 2007, translating to roughly 110 million global users.

The good: Firefox is commonly referred to as the most secure Web browser available. With a massive team of worldwide developers and contributors, holes and bugs can be patched and pushed out with extraordinary speed. Thousands of extensions are available, too, which are simple ways to add functionality to the browser. Tabbed browsing lets you have multiple Web sites open within a single browser window without cluttering the Windows taskbar. There's also an integrated download manager, RSS management and an integrated search bar for hundreds of Web sites.

The bad: Firefox can sometimes devour a system's RAM, though this is reportedly the result of certain extensions and plugins. It can also take a few seconds longer to load a page than Opera or Internet Explorer.

Conclusion: There is no reason not to use Firefox. It is the best, most configurable browser available. If you're used to Internet Explorer, you'll find the switch to Firefox painless. It looks similar and offers the same 'back, forward, stop, refresh' functionality, but offers as many extra features as you care to get hold of. If you're not using it, you're missing out.

Download it here: mozilla.com/firefox

Gimmix

Gimmix is a graphical music player daemon (MPD) client written in C using GTK+2. It's very simple and easy to use, yet offers many features to make your audio experience a pleasant one.

Features:

• Simple and clean interface.
• Compact and full view modes.
• Library Browser.
• Library Search (Search by Artist, Album, Filename etc)
• Playlist management (manage mpd playlists)
• ID3v2 Tag editing support.
• Support for controlling gimmix through keyboard
• System tray icon support.
• Notification support (Displays the currently playing song in systray).
• Small memory footprint.

Latest Version: 0.4.2

License: GNU General Public License

Author: Priyank M. Gosalia

Audio players for Linux have come a long way since graphical desktop environments were made available. Over the years, more and more audio players were released, while the old ones were constantly being updated. Now, it's pretty hard to choose from a very large number of players, each with its own features, advantages and disadvantages.

Gimmix, however, is not an ordinary audio player. It requires a lot more than running it and pressing the play button to listen to music. Gimmix is just a front-end to MPD (music player daemon), which will require to be installed, configured and started in order for Gimmix to run properly. MPD is basically a server which allows remote access for playing audio files, streams and managing playlists. What's really impressive about this design is that the client used for controlling the server doesn't need to run on the same machine MPD runs on. This enables you to play the music files on your home server from work, a friend's house or wherever, as long as you have Gimmix with you.

Gimmix is a quite new player, it was first released in October this year and in about a month, has reached a development level most players don't touch for another year. Installing Gimmix is a very simple process, just enter its directory, type make and make install. Unfortunately, installing its dependencies could cause severe head aches for most Linux beginners, probably forcing them to drop the whole process.

Gimmix requires Gtk+-2.10.x, libglade-2.6.0 or higher, libmpd-0.12.0 or higher, libnotify-0.4.x, libconfuse-2.5 and, of course, a working MPD. I'm running Fedora and unfortunately, couldn't find libmpd on any repositories, so I had to compile it from source. This was a pretty bad idea because the files needed for pkg-config were copied to a directory they shouldn't be in. So I had to manually copy libmpd.pc from /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ to /usr/lib/pkgconfig/. Next, I had to create a symlink from /usr/local/lib/libmpd.so.0 to /usr/lib/libmpd.so.0 just to get Gimmix running.

Now, in order to have Gimmix also playing some music, I needed MPD installed and running so I've started searching for it in the repositories, found available on Livna and installed it. By default, the music files will need to be manually added to /var/lib/mpd/music.

It was now time to run Gimmix by typing gimmix in a terminal. Because it was its first time running on this machine, I was asked for the MPD server host, port and password. I haven't touched mpd.conf so, by default, the server runs on port 6600 with no password. As for the host, I've entered the IP address of the machine MPD was installed on. The main window was pretty small but had all the functions needed for playing audio and managing the playlist. The upper part of the window had printed "Gimmix", its version (0.2 was the last version) and underneath was the player's web address. In the middle was a progress bar and finally, the lower part of the window had the play buttons: previous, play (which turns into pause while playing), stop, next, file info, repeat all, shuffle and preferences. The last button would open the preferences window which has two tabs: Options and Other settings. The first tab contains the server related options which I was asked about the first time I've opened Gimmix: host, port and password, while the second tab had two check boxes, whether to enable system tray icon and system tray notifications. Also, there was a volume bar in the far right part of the main window.

Underneath the play buttons was the Playlist toggle button, which would show or hide it. The playlist is also divided into two tabs: Playlist and Library. The Playlist contains the list of the currently scheduled for playing, while the Library tab contains the list with all the available audio files (all the files in the /var/lib/mpd/music directory). File names from Library can be added to Playlist with a simple double click or selecting it and pressing enter, while removing them from Playlist require a right click on the file name and clicking Remove. The Library tab has an update function found in the right-click menu and also a quick search feature (similar to Winamp's Jump to File function) which allows you to quickly find files in a long list.

At the bottom of the playlist, there were three buttons: add, remove or clear items to/from playlist. The same functions could be reached if the playlist section was right-clicked. My playlist was empty so I clicked the Add button, which opened a new window containing the audio files I've added earlier to /var/lib/mpd/music. To add a file to the playlist, I simply had to double click it.

The Good

Gimmix has a simple, yet nice user interface which is very intuitive and easy to use. Because it's based on MPD, you can listen to your files from any computer, as long as you have Gimmix and its requirements installed. Moreover, it has a system tray icon which enables quick and easy access to the player's controls.

The Bad

Because it's based on MPD, it also has disadvantages, the biggest one being that you can't add files to playlist from the computer you currently use. Also, listening to music files from another machine requires that you have an external IP address as the port isn't firewalled. Also, if you plan on listening only to high quality audio files such as 320kbps mp3 files or, even worse, FLAC audio files, you will need a pretty large connection bandwidth on both server and current PC.

The Truth

Overall, Gimmix is a great audio player but only for listening to music on your home Linux PC. It's small, requires very low resources and even supports systray icon integration. Unfortunately, installing its dependencies could take some time and listening to high quality audio files will require you to have large connection bandwidth. However, if you just want to listen to music already on the current PC, I'd recommend you use a normal audio player because Gimmix (more exactly MPD) only allows you to play files from the MPD music directory.

Check out some screenshots below:

What is GStreamer?

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, generic interface.

GStreamer is released under the LGPL.

Multiplatform

GStreamer has been ported to a wide range of operating systems, processors and compilers. This include but are not limited to Linux on i86,PPC, ARM using GCC. Solaris on x86 and SPARC using both GCC and Forte, MacOSX, Microsoft Windows using MS Visual Developer and IBM OS/400.

Comprehensive Core Library

• Graph-based structure allows arbitrary pipeline construction
• Based on GLib 2.0 object model for object-oriented design and inheritance
• Compact core library of less than 500KB, about 65 K lines of code
• Multi-threaded pipelines are trivial and transparent to construct
• Clean and simple API for both plugin and application developers
• Extremely lightweight data passing means very high performance/low latency
• Complete debugging system for both core and plugin/app developers
• Clocking to ensure global inter-stream synchronization (a/v sync)
• Quality of service (qos) to ensure best possible quality under high CPU load

Intelligent Plugin Architecture

• Dynamically loaded plugins provide elements and media types, demand-loaded via an XML registry, similar to ld.so.cache
• Element interface handles all known types of sources, filters, sinks
• Capabilities system allows verification of element compatibility using MIME types and media-specific properties
• Autoplugging uses capabilities system to complete complex paths automatically
• Pipelines can be saved to XML and loaded back to working state
• Resource friendly plugins don't waste RAM

Extensive Development Tools

• gst-launch command-line tool for quick prototyping and testing, similar to ecasound
• A lot of documentation, including partially completed manual and plugin writer's guide
• Large selection of test programs and example code
• Access to GStreamer API with various programming languages
• Graphical editor allows pipelines to be built quickly, run, and saved as XML (not ported to 0.10)

GStreamer is rapidly approaching a stable API. There is still a number of items on our TODO list.

Because GStreamer is designed to be as generic as possible, a wide range of applications can be build on top of it with very little effort, allowing the programmer to focus on the user interface and human interaction components of application design.

GStreamer applications

All applications listed alphabetically

amaroK

amaroK is an audio player for KDE.

avisynth 3.0

Avisynth 3.0 is a powerful video frameserver.

Banshee

Banshee is a music player for GNOME using Mono

Boxtream

Boxtream is a project of hardware and software forming a mobile and autonomous video streaming and recording studio.

BMPx

BMPx is a music player using GTK+ with a 'Winamp' like interface

Buzztard

Buzztard is music application similar to Buzz or FastTracker.

Cupid

A GStreamer video Recorder, which is currently under development and will be able to record perfectly synchronized audio/video in any format supported by GStreamer.

Dissent

Dissent is a audio and video player written in C# and GTK+.

The Dave/Dina Project

The Dave/Dina Project is a set-top box distribution for playing and recording TV and multimedia and much more.

Elisa

Elisa is a OpenGL based cross-platform media center solution.

Eina

Eina is a traditional audio player with a GTK2 interface.

Exaile

Exaile is a audio player for GNOME supporting a wide range of features. Its GUI and featureset is similar to that of the Amarok music player.

Flumotion

Flumotion is a distributed streaming media server

FUPlayer

FUPlayer GNOME Media player written in Python.

Gamp

Gamp is a GNOME based media player

Geekcast

Geekast is a GNOME P2P streaming client writen in Ruby

GNOME Media

GNOME Media uses GStreamer for the volume control, sound recorder and cd player.

GMediaRender

GMediaRender is a upnp client for use with upnp media servers

Goobox

Goobox is a GNOME based cd-player and ripper

GStreamer Editor

A graphical pipeline contruction interface called GStreamer Editor.

Istanbul

Istanbul is a screen recorder

iStream

iStream is a GNOME panel applet for playing internet radio streams.

Jamboree

Jamboree is a GNOME based music player developed by Imendio.

Jokosher

Jokosher is a multitrack music editori

JuK

JuK is an audio jukebox for KDE.

Kaffeine

Kaffeine is a KDE based media player

Lindele

Lindele is a GNOME based music player

Listen

Listen is a GNOME music player written in Python

LiveSupport

LiveSupport is radio management software that provides live studio broadcast capabilities as well as remote automation in one integrated system.

Marlin

marlin is a sample editor for Gnome.

MMS

MMS or My Media System is a media center style application.

Monkey Bubble

Monkey Bubble a fun and cool game for GNOME using GStreamer to play some funky music and sweet sound effects.

Muine

Muine is a music player for GNOME using the Mono framework.

OggConvert

OggConvert is a tool for converting video to Ogg,Theora,Dirac and Vorbis formats.

Pakt

Pakt is a XML abstraction for GObjects used with GStreamer to monitor and change elements parameters and pipeline structures.

Pitivi

Pitivi is a Non-Linear video editor utilizing the power of GStreamer and the Gnonlin non-linear video editing library.

Rhythmbox

Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes.

Serpentine

Serpentine is a GNOME Audio cd recorder

Songbird

Songbird is a cross-platform media player written using the XUL toolkit from Mozilla.

Sound Converter

Sound Converter Small GNOME based sound conversion application.

Sound Juicer

Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME.

SoundScrape

SoundScrape is a modular audio synthesizer with built in GUILE scriptability.

Togra

Togra is a 3D multimedia framework

Quod Libet

Quod Libet is a Music Manager for GNOME written in Python

Thoggen

Thoggen is a DVD backup utility using GStreamer with a nice GTK+ frontend. Powerfull and easy to use.

Totem

Totem is a movie player for the GNOME desktop.

Towel

Towel is a GTKMM based music player.

WaveMixer

WaveMixer is a multitrack sound editor written with gtkmm and GStreamer.

Wechselspieler

Wechselspieler is an artistic tool for mapping movements in video to MIDI events

Experimental GStreamer applications

Aldegonde

Aldegonde is a simple media player made to ease debugging of GStreamer playback issues.

Kiss

Kiss is a simple KDE base media player meant as an example application for KDE developers who want to use GStreamer.

Permovi

Permovi is a Linux-based HTPC (Home Theatre PC) application. It transforms a PC into a standalone CD-player/tuner/DVD-player/PVR device. Permovi is using the Mono framework.

Video-Whale

Video-Whale is an implementation of a Gstreamer-based video-wall. Making a video wall with GStreamer is easy, this article with pictures from Zeeshan Ali shows you how.

gst-sci

gst-sci are a collection of scientific plugins for GStreamer.

 

 

Application ideas

Just about anything you can think to do with media is possible with GStreamer. You can see some of our ideas for applications. If you're not sure if your idea would work, just hop on the gstreamer-devel mailing list and ask us, we'll be glad to discuss it with you!

 

 

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