gstreamer

brew install gstreamer v1.28.4 LGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND MIT

Open-source multimedia framework and plugin-based pipeline for audio/video processing, encoding, and playback.

Why you might care

GStreamer is the standard foundation for building multimedia apps on Linux/Unix; it abstracts codec complexity via plugins and handles streaming, transcoding, and real-time AV. Use this if you're developing media software that needs hardware acceleration, filter chains, or multi-format support. Heavy runtime dependency for media-aware applications.

Alternatives

FFmpeg libav OpenAL OpenSSL

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Runtime dependencies

aom cairo dav1d faac faad2 fdk-aac ffmpeg flac gdk-pixbuf glib graphene gtk+3 gtk4 imath jpeg-turbo json-glib lame libass libnice libogg libpng librsvg libshout libsndfile libsodium libsoup libusrsctp libvmaf libvorbis libvpx libx11 libxcb libxext libxfixes libxi libxtst little-cms2 mpg123 nettle opencore-amr openexr openjpeg openssl@3 opus orc pango pygobject3 python@3.14 rtmpdump speex srt srtp svt-av1 taglib theora webp x264 x265 gettext harfbuzz musepack

Build dependencies

bison cargo-c cmake gettext gobject-introspection meson ninja pkgconf rust

Caveats

All gst-* GStreamer plugins are now bundled in this formula.
For GStreamer to find your own plugins, add their paths to `GST_PLUGIN_PATH`.
For example, if you have plugins in `~/.local/lib/gstreamer-1.0`:
  export GST_PLUGIN_PATH="~/.local/lib/gstreamer-1.0"

Do not install plugins into GStreamer's prefix. They will be deleted
by `brew upgrade`.

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