"One of the most frequently asked questions in the GTK mailing lists is 'How do I use threads with GTK'. Actually, the question is more often 'I’ve started writing a GTK program, and it doesn’t work. What the hell?' and it quickly emerges that they’re trying to do a multi-threaded GTK app, and doing it wrong."

Jokosher developer Jono Bacon has written an extensive < http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=750 introduction > to the GStreamer Python bindings. This is a great read for developers that are interested in making Linux multimedia applications with Python. It's well written and requires no prior GStreamer experience.