GStreamer Player Plugin

A GStreamer-powered alternative to Flutter's video_player that support Linux and Android.

Installation

Linux

Follow GStreamer's Install on Linux instuction.

Android

Follow GStreamer's Install on Android instuction.

In Android, you need to init GStreamer in main activity of your flutter application. In your flutter application, edit MainActivity.kt or MainActivity.java file, depends on your flutter config (This file is usually located at android/app/src/main/<PATH_DEPPEND_ON_YOUR_FLUTTER_APPLICATION>/MainActivity.kt). Import GStreamer module and override onCreate of MainActivity class to init GStreamer, the end result should looks like bellow.

import org.freedesktop.gstreamer.GStreamer

class MainActivity: FlutterActivity() {
  override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)

    GStreamer.init(this);
  }
}

This source code has been tested with GStreamer 1.20.1 prebuild binary

Getting Started

To start using the plugin, copy this code or follow the example project in example

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';
import 'package:flutter_gstreamer_player/flutter_gstreamer_player.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({Key? key}) : super(key: key);

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      home: Scaffold(
        body: GstPlayer(
            pipeline:
              '''rtspsrc location=
                  rtsp://wowzaec2demo.streamlock.net/vod/mp4:BigBuckBunny_115k.mp4 !
                rtph264depay !
                h264parse !
                decodebin !
                videoconvert !
                video/x-raw,format=RGBA !
                appsink name=sink''',
          ),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}

License

This library & work under this repository is licensed under MIT License.