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I'm a bit confused about what Gstreamer does.

  • Does it come installed by default with Ubuntu ?
    • If so which version is the default for 14.04?
  • Does it provide hardware accelerated video playback (decoding) ?

    • If so does it work with VA-API and VDPAU or is it an alternative to those?

Thanks for your help

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Gstreamer 1.0 is installed by default on 14.04 (See the desktop image manifest)

But you need to install additional plugins to get VA-API support.

Install the following package in a Terminal:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-vaapi

For VDPAU, check this answer: How to enable VDPAU on GStreamer?

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  • Thanks for clearing up a few things - is Gstreamer a framework on which media playing software is built? - If so which softwares use it? - Is it capable of hw accelerated decoding without VDPAU or VA API?
    – sdrubish
    May 1, 2014 at 0:15
  • Gstreamer is used by Totem (the default) media player, clementine and many more. Gstreamer won't use GPU acceleration without those additional plugins (Visit this page for further details) May 1, 2014 at 7:40

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