Introduction

Using gstreamer-java is simple, if not totally obvious, due to its dependency on JNA.

Details

To use gstreamer-java, you need to download the latest versions of both gstreamer-java.jar and jna.jar and put them in the classpath.

e.g.

Download jna-3.0.jar and gstreamer-java-0.6.jar.

Then, to invoke the SwingVideoTest example program on linux:

    java -Djna.library.path=/usr/lib -cp jna-3.0.jar:gstreamer-java-0.6.jar org.gstreamer.example.SwingVideoTest

Note: On windows, separate the jar files with a semi-colon ';' instead of a colon ':', and you should not need to set the jna.library.path

Note: On Linux, you must use the Sun JVM - GCJ will not work. Use java -version to determine which one you have.

gstreamer-java should automatically work on any platform JNA supports, but it is only regularly tested on MacOSX and Linux.