GStreamer Backend

The GStreamer backend is a web video and web audio backend that's used by the GTK+, Qt, and EFL ports. Optionally it can be used by other ports as well.

Ongoing work

• Live streaming doesn't work
  • ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90732
• Performance issues
  • The video sink isn't fast enough yet to handle fullscreen video. We are relying on the builtin fullscreen video control in GStreamer. This does not support custom controls.
  • We need better integration with AC. Even when not using hardware accelerated video decoding, we should consider offloading color space conversion to a shader.
• Encrypted video
• WebRTC support and media selection
  • ​https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87514