GStreamer vs SFML

GStreamer

GStreamer open-source multimedia framework (by GStreamer)

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SFML

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (by SFML)

Multimedia SFML C++ Games OpenGL SDK Graphics Audio Cross-Platform HacktoberFest

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GStreamer		SFML
	Project
1	Mentions	122
2,093	Stars	9,600
3.7%	Growth	1.4%
9.9	Activity	9.5
4 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
C	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	zlib License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

GStreamer

Posts with mentions or reviews of GStreamer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-25.

C++20 Ranges Algorithms – 7 Non-Modifying Operations
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Apr 2022

SFML

Posts with mentions or reviews of SFML. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-08.

Ask HN: How to create a simple 2D game in C?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024

Take a look at SFML. Very easy to get started, and quite capable.
https://www.sfml-dev.org/
rewriting a java project to C++, a bit lost on something.
1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 11 Dec 2023

As for windows, you'd probably be alright looking into SFML, you can see their Getting Started tutorial for how to install it in your IDE of choice.
Ajutor in privinta incercarii a face un joc
2 projects | /r/programare | 8 Dec 2023
Not only Unity...
53 projects | /r/opensourcegames | 11 Nov 2023

SFML (zlib/C++) https://github.com/SFML/SFML
Integrate web support in sfml
2 projects | /r/programming | 7 Nov 2023
SFML 2.6.1
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2023
Make a game engine in C++
4 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 10 Jul 2023

SDL or SFML for drawing. They are both gfx libs but are used differently so read about what you thing suits you better.
C++ Project Ideas?
4 projects | /r/Cplusplus | 4 Jul 2023

Make a game with https://www.sfml-dev.org/ (I used SFML Rust to start learning Rust)
link_libraries in Neat and Efficient way
2 projects | /r/cmake | 28 Jun 2023

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16) project(CMakeSFMLProject LANGUAGES CXX) include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(SFML GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/SFML/SFML.git GIT_TAG 2.6.0) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(SFML) add_executable(CMakeSFMLProject src/main.cpp) target_link_libraries(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE sfml-graphics) target_compile_features(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE cxx_std_17)
SFML 2.6.0 Released
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GStreamer and SFML you can also consider the following projects:

mpv - 🎥 Command line video player

raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

libVLC

SDL - DEPRECATED: Official development moved to GitHub

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

imgui - Dear ImGui: Bloat-free Graphical User interface for C++ with minimal dependencies

OpenFrameworks - openFrameworks is a community-developed cross platform toolkit for creative coding in C++.

QtAv - A cross-platform multimedia framework based on Qt and FFmpeg. 基于Qt和FFmpeg的跨平台高性能音视频播放框架. Recommand to use new sdk https://github.com/wang-bin/mdk-sdk

GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input

MediaInfoLib - Convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

Pygame - 🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.