Over the past few years, I have worked on a new GStreamer UDP source element. This is finally merged now and will be part of both the GStreamer 1.30.0 release and the gst-plugins-rs 0.16.0 release. The old element uses GIO for networking, which is quite ...
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Centricular
Expertise, Straight from the Source
Centricular
Expertise, Straight from the Source
GStreamer Consulting for Multimedia Systems
We are a team of core GStreamer maintainers helping companies and governments design, optimize, and ship complex, production-grade multimedia systems. We provide consulting, development, debugging, and training for multimedia in general and GStreamer in particular.
Our decades of experience has made us experts in every multimedia domain. Whether it's real-time streaming and bidirectional media with WebRTC, RTP, RTSP, MoQ, or low-latency streaming with HLS, DASH, MSS, we have you covered.
We have intimate knowledge of the audio and video stacks on every major platform: Pipewire, ALSA, V4L2, Vulkan, OpenGL, D3D12, WASAPI, MediaFoundation, ASIO, AudioToolbox, VideoToolbox, AVFoundation, Metal, Nvidia DeepStream, Intel QuickSync, i.MX, Qualcomm, and more.
And of course, we have a deep understanding of major codecs such as H264, H265, H266, VP9, AV1, AAC, Opus and their hardware codec implementations on embedded, server, desktop, and mobile.
All this makes us well-placed to advise you on the best way forward given your product requirements and constraints, work with you on prototypes, and take you all the way to production.
Expertise, Straight from the Source
We are the core maintainers of the GStreamer multimedia framework, and we work on every part of its diverse plugin / feature set. We also work with production deployments of GStreamer every day, on every aspect up and down the stack of server platforms, embedded and IoT devices, mobile or desktop apps, and kiosk deployments.
As a result, our customers trust us to be their first point of contact, whether they are embarking on a new endeavour, adding new features to an existing product, or investigating critical issues in production.
Our unique position and expertise provides our customers with the confidence they need to know that they are on the right track.
What we can help with
You can trust us to accelerate product milestones by designing new systems, building prototypes or features, and taking them all the way to production.
We can quickly debug productions systems to diagnose complex issues, identify root causes, and deliver solutions ranging from hotfixes or rapid prototypes, to robust, long-term systemic solutions.
Being core maintainers of the GStreamer framework makes us the best people to get in touch for improvements to upstream such as bugfixes, new plugins, or wide-ranging new features.
We also offer training and workshops, Rust language development and porting, feasibility studies, and on-demand support for your teams.
Our recent work
Take a look at the latest posts from our devlog to get a peek at what we've been up to.
We've been hard at work doing numerous small and large improvements to GStreamer for people who want to target Apple platforms: macOS, iOS, and tvOS. With the GStreamer 1.28.0 release, the project now releases an XCFramework for iOS. As expected, this XCFramework supports iOS arm64, ...
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GStreamer has shipped binaries for all the major platforms for many years now: Windows, Android, macOS, iOS. Linux packages are, of course, handled by all the various distros. However, if you wanted to use the Python bindings on macOS or Windows, you had to jump ...
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At the '25 GStreamer conference I gave a talk titled Costly Speech: an introduction. This was in reference to the fact that all the speech-related elements used in the pipeline I presented were wrappers around for-pay cloud services or for-pay on-site servers. At the end ...
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Icecast is a Free and Open Source multimedia streaming server, primarily used for audio and radio streaming over HTTP(S). In GStreamer you can send an audio stream to such a server with the shout2send sink element based on libshout2. This works perfectly fine, but has ...
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