This is just blatantly wrong, as anyone that has actually looked at the project's documentation and code can tell.
Because GStreamer is designed to be modular and plugin-based, all sorts of plugins exist for it (including libav plugins) but it is itself a media framework that is quite capable of replacing ffmpeg. Neither is "higher level" than the other.
This is just blatantly wrong, as anyone that has actually looked at the project's documentation and code can tell.
Because GStreamer is designed to be modular and plugin-based, all sorts of plugins exist for it (including libav plugins) but it is itself a media framework that is quite capable of replacing ffmpeg. Neither is "higher level" than the other.