[$] GStreamer: state of the union

The annual GStreamerconference took place October 21-22 in Prague, (unofficially)co-located with the EmbeddedLinux Conference Europe. The GStreamer project is alibrary for connecting media elements such as sources, encoders and decoders, filters,streaming endpoints, and output sinks of all sorts into a fullycustomizable pipeline. It offers cross-platform support, a large set ofplugins, modernstreaming and codec formats, and hardware acceleration as some of its features. Kickingoff this year's conference was Tim-Philipp Mi1/4ller with his report on thelast 12 months of development and what we can look forward to next.