Base-Art - GStreamer

From WebKit/GStreamer to rust-av, a journey on our stack’s layers

Philippe Normand — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:15:00 +0200

In this post I’ll try to document the journey starting from a WebKit issue and ending up improving third-party projects that WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit depend on.

I’ve been working on WebKit’s GStreamer backends for a while. Usually some new feature needed on WebKit side would trigger work …

WebRTC in WebKitGTK and WPE, status updates, part I

Philippe Normand — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:30:00 +0100

Some time ago we at Igalia embarked on the journey to ship a GStreamer-powered WebRTC backend. This is a long journey, it is not over, but we made some progress …

Catching up on WebKit GStreamer WebAudio backends maintenance

Philippe Normand — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 13:45:00 +0100

Over the past few months the WebKit development team has been working on modernizing support for the WebAudio specification. This post highlights some of the changes that were recently merged, focusing on the GStreamer ports.

My fellow WebKit colleague, Chris Dumez, has been very active lately, updating the WebAudio implementation …

Web-augmented graphics overlay broadcasting with WPE and GStreamer

Philippe Normand — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:00:00 +0200

Graphics overlays are everywhere nowadays in the live video broadcasting industry. In this post I introduce a new demo relying on GStreamer and WPEWebKit to deliver low-latency web-augmented video broadcasts.

Readers of this blog might remember a few posts about WPEWebKit and a GStreamer element we at Igalia worked on …

GStreamer’s playbin3 overview for application developers

Philippe Normand — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 12:05:12 +0200

Multimedia applications based on GStreamer usually handle playback with the playbin element. I recently added support for playbin3 in WebKit. This post aims to document the changes needed on application side to support this new generation flavour of playbin.

So, first of, why is it named playbin3 anyway? The GStreamer …

WebKitGTK and WPE now supporting videos in the img tag

Philippe Normand — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 18:00:00 +0200

Using videos in the <img> HTML tag can lead to more responsive web-page loads in most cases. Colin Bendell blogged about this topic, make sure to read his post on the cloudinary website. As it turns out, this feature has been supported for more than 2 years in Safari, but …

HTML overlays with GstWPE, the demo

Philippe Normand — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 15:00:00 +0100

Once again this year I attended the GStreamer conference and just before that, Embedded Linux conference Europe which took place in Lyon (France). Both events were a good opportunity to demo one of the use-cases I have in mind for GstWPE, HTML overlays!

As we, at Igalia, usually have a …

Review of the Igalia Multimedia team Activities (2019/H1)

Philippe Normand — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 15:30:00 +0200

This blog post takes a look back at the various Multimedia-related tasks the Igalia Multimedia team was involved in during the first half of 2019.

GStreamer Editing Services

Thibault added support for the OpenTimelineIO open format for editorial timeline information. Having many editorial timeline information formats supported by OpenTimelineIO reduces …

Web overlay in GStreamer with WPEWebKit

Philippe Normand — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:09:36 +0100

After a year or two of hiatus I attended the GStreamer conference which happened in beautiful Edinburgh. It was great to meet the friends from the community again and learn about what’s going on in the multimedia world. The quality of the talks was great, the videos are published …