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  <info>

    <link type="guide" xref="index" group="media"/>

    <revision version="0.1" date="2013-06-19" status="draft"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>David King</name>

      <email its:translate="no">davidk@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2013</years>

    </credit>

    <include xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>

    <desc>Multi-format audio and video playback and editing, streaming from the web, and webcam support.</desc>

  </info>

<title>Multimedia</title>

<list>

 <item>

  
Play and record a multitude of audio and video formats

 </item>

 <item>

  
Access webcams and other media devices connected to the system

 </item>

 <item>

  
Share and stream media with remote devices

 </item>

</list>

Add multimedia to your application so that users can easily play their

content. Consume and share content with other devices attached to a system or

remotely over the network. The underlying low-level API is available if you

need more control.

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Videos

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<section id="what">

 <title>What can you do?</title>

  
Multimedia in GNOME is built on the

  <link xref="tech-gstreamer">GStreamer</link>

  framework. With GStreamer, flexible pipelines of media can be

  created, from simple playback of audio and video to complex non-linear

  editing.

  
GStreamer uses

  <link xref="tech-pulseaudio">PulseAudio</link> when

  outputting audio, and therefore can target many types of output hardware.

  PulseAudio also handles dynamic output switching and application-specific

  volume control.

  
For webcams, use

  Cheese. It provides a simple

  interface to webcams connected to the system, and an easy way to add an

  avatar chooser to your application.

  
Use Rygel to share content over

  the network to devices such as TVs and games consoles. Rygel uses

  <link xref="tech-gupnp">GUPnP</link> underneath,

  which is a low-level API to access content with UPnP

  protocols.

  
For simple event sounds, such as a shutter sound

  when taking a photo, use

  <link xref="tech-canberra">libcanberra</link>, which

  implements the freedesktop.org sound theme specification.

</section>

<section id="samples">

 <title>Code samples</title>

 <list>

  <item>
A sample we should write
</item>

  <item>
<link xref="samples#integration">More...</link>
</item>

 </list>

</section>

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<section id="realworld">

 <title>Real-world examples</title>

  
You can see lots of real-world applications of GNOME multimedia

  technologies in open source projects, like the examples given below.

  <list>

    <item>

      
Videos is the GNOME multimedia player.

      
( <link href="https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Videos">Website</link> | <link href="https://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/plain/data/appdata/ss-main.png">Screenshot</link> | <link href="https://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/">Source code</link> )

    </item>

    <item>

      
PiTiVi is a non-linear video editor, which

      makes extensive use of GStreamer.

      
( <link href="http://www.pitivi.org/">Website</link> | <link href="http://www.pitivi.org/?go=screenshots">Screenshots</link> | <link href="http://www.pitivi.org/?go=download">Source code</link> )

    </item>

 </list>

</section>

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