GStreamer

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 5 years (2019–2023), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with GStreamer, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Hard to debug problems buried in autogenerated Python bindings to C code2023-11-19
Poor docs and little error feedback make pipelines a trial-and-error whack-a-mole2020-06-22
Hard to start and stop filesink; docs and help are scarce2020-06-22
Setup documentation is hard to understand, making installation difficult2019-05-25