# GStreamer &GST_API_VERSION; Core Reference Manual

for GStreamer Core &GST_API_VERSION; (&GST_VERSION;) The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer/html/.

## GStreamer Overview

GStreamer is a streaming media framework. It uses graphs of elements which operate on data. The functionality to process media is provided by plug-ins which provide features like elements, typefinding, and so on. This allows new functionality to be added simply by installing new plug-ins.

GStreamer is cross-platform and works on most UNIX-like platforms as well as Windows. It is released under the GNU Library General Public License (GNU LGPL).

Relation between gstreamer core objects.

## GStreamer Core Library

libgstreamer-&GST_API_VERSION;.so provides all the core GStreamer services, including initialization, plugin management and types, as well as the object hierarchy that defines elements and bins, along with some more specialized elements.

## GStreamer Core Support

Theses modules support the gstreamer core and plugin development. Application developers will rarely need to know about it.

## Object Hierarchy

API Index

Index of deprecated API