Material to learn GObject and Glib

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rahijain picture rahijain · Feb 1, 2009 · Viewed 25.1k times · Source

I am comfortable with C. but need to learn GObject and Glib for gstreamer. All i found on net is Gobject reference manual. Its good but looking for tutorial for Gobject/Glib as the main focus is on gstreamer.

So pls share any other resources to learn the glib and gobject.

Answer

tilljoel picture tilljoel · Feb 1, 2009

Start with Glib, its quite easy and well described here: Glib Reference Manual

GObject is mostly a lot of boilerplate code to achieve object orientation. Try out the "maman bar" examples found in the GObject Reference Manual

For me, GStreamer took the most time to understand. The documentation is good but there is alot to read (GStreamer docs). After reading about the basics, try starting a pipeline from the cmdline using gst-launch. Then read the full manual about application development and do some examples. Before trying to build your own plugin, check out some simple plugin and try understand the different parts, a simple place to start is the identity plugin

Good luck!

/Joel Larsson

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