Developer Information

Much documentation and some introductory slides are to be found on the Documentation page. We suggest to read the manual and the slides to get a general overview and to get you started.

New developers are welcome to:

• Contribute to the core library.
• Write plugins for GStreamer.
• Write applications using GStreamer.
• Write a lot of language bindings.
• Contribute to the documentation.
• Build test cases.

The developers tend to live in IRC on Freenode, in #gstreamer. Sketching ideas and making plans can be done on the gstreamer wiki.

Git access

Modules

The repository is split in several modules.

Anonymous Git Access

This project's freedesktop.org Git repository can be checked out through anonymous Git with the following instruction set. The module you wish to check out must be specified as the modulename. To determine the names of the modules created by this project, you may examine their Git repository via the provided web-based Git repository viewer.

git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/modulename

Developer Git Access

Only project developers can access the Git tree via this method. A Git client must be installed on your client machine. Substitute modulename and username with the proper values. Enter your site password when prompted.

You find information on how to get a developer account on freedesktop here

git clone ssh://username@git.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer/modulename

Buildbots

Commits to Git are verified by our build cluster. This does automated checkouts on a series of slaves and runs the build there. If a commit breaks a build it is announced in the gstreamer developer channel and on this websites: GStreamer buildbot.

Language Bindings

The GStreamer API can be accessed from various programming languages in addition to the native C API.