%version-entities; ]> 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 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. 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. Theses modules support the gstreamer core and plugin development. Application developers will rarely need to know about it.