gstreamer or openlibraries?

Since I couldn't take the decision, I decided to make a simple video player in with both backends. Basically the first steps of the development with both.

I decided to go with openlibraries because all the important stuff is basically the same... stable, powerful and platform-free. They both offer some high level command line manipulation and some high level API usage. The main difference between one backend and the other is that gstreamer is a plugin system where you create the elements and it's connections embeded in your application but openlibraries has a mid level usage where with sockets you access the server and have your client being an api.

This simplifies a lot the code and gives interesting possibilites as having the server and client in different machines. For example using lite systems as interface connected to a heavy duty media processor somewhere else, or even having a gig through the internet (done this before and needed to stream the output video, streaming just the signals from gui to core is much more efficient and would give a bigger quality product).

In the other hand gstreamer is an old dog, and openlibraries is a starting project. So I see openlibraries having a very big potential, and this is very interesting for me.

Luis de Bethencourt