Suppose you have recorded a live concert of your favorite musician or a singer. You have saved all this into a single file with MP3 format but you would like to break this file into small pieces. There is more than one way to achieve this using Python and GStreamer. We will use the simplest and perhaps the most efficient way of cutting a small piece from an audio track. It makes use of an excellent GStreamer plugin, called Gnonlin.
The multimedia editing can be classified as linear or non-linear. Non-linear multimedia editing enables control over the media progress in an interactive way. For example, it allows you to control the order in which the sources should be executed. At the same time it allows modifications to the position in a media track. While doing all this, note that the original source (such as an audio file) remains unchanged. Thus the editing is non-destructive. The Gnonlin or (G-Non-Linear) provides essential elements for non...