Using GStreamer in Node.js

GStreamer is a versatile framework for creating streaming media applications, allowing developers to design low-latency applications capable of handling diverse audio and video data streams through a plugin-based architecture. While GStreamer excels in building media pipelines and media players with support for numerous formats, its integration with Node.js remains challenging due to the lack of official ports or bindings, necessitating workarounds like the node-addon-api to call C code directly. Despite GStreamer's robust plugin architecture that enables interoperability with other multimedia frameworks, limitations persist, such as browser compatibility issues restricted to Chromium-based browsers and difficulties in standardizing GStreamer bindings for Node.js. The article underscores the need for a comprehensive and standardized Node.js port to streamline the development process, suggesting the potential for future improvements in this area.