Very cool to see large-scale software projects used for scientific discoveries.
Another example: Gravitational waves were found with GStreamer at LIGO: https://lscsoft.docs.ligo.org/gstlal/
Another example: Gravitational waves were found with GStreamer at LIGO: https://lscsoft.docs.ligo.org/gstlal/
That being said, I don't know whether it's actually a good idea for someone external to actually use it. My experience may be a little outdated, but it's quite clunky and dated. The big advantage of using it for CERN or particle physics stuff is that it's basically a standard, so it's easy to collaborate internally.
The other one, gstreamer, is a beautifully designed platform with an architecture so nice it can be easily abstracted and reused in completely different scenarios, even ones that probably never occurred to the authors.
Say WHAT now?!