G-streamer, what is it?

Question

G-streamer, what is it?

How can I determine if it is already installed?

I've already looked in the obvious places - where and how do I get it?

Answer 1

GStreamer is a streaming media framework that enables applications to share a common set of plugins for things like video decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio and video filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise.^{Linux From Scratch}

To see if you have it, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

gst-inspect-1.0 fakesrc

If not, do this for Ubuntu 13.10, and older

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gstreamer-developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0*

and for 14.04

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ddalex/gstreamer 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0*

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