The GStreamer project doesn’t provide  any updated  binary package for Windows and if you want to develop an application based on GStreamer  for this OS you have to build them by yourself.

That why we have created the GStreamer WinBuilds project which goal is to provide precompiled GStreamer binary packages for Microsoft Windows, including a large collection of encoding/decoding plugins.

This project is based on  OABuild, but with a different approach in the way of adding external plugins. Rather than trying to compile all the external dependencies with the MSVC toolchain (ffmpeg, libxvid, libx264, liba52, etc…) , which not always possible,  we compile them using Mingw/Msys linking the gstreamer plugins to these libraries.

The changes we made so far are:

• Added ffmpeg plugin with full codec support
• Added gstvolume plugin.
• Added gstmad plugin.
• Added gstasfdemux plugin.
• Added gstlame.
• Removed  Direct Show wrapper to use the ffmepg plugin for all the decoding stuff.
• Added gstxvid plugin.
• Added gstmpeg2decoder plugin.
• Added gstmpegstream plugin.
• Added gstresindvd plugin.
• Added gstfaad plugin.
• Added gstfaac plugin.
• Added gstdvdspu plugin.
• Adde gsta52 plugin.
• Added gstmpeg4parse plugin.
• Added gstqtdemux plugin.

Find out more at the  GStreamer Winbuilds Wiki