# 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 Device Discovery and Device Probing

## 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

Index of new API in 1.14

Index of new API in 1.12

Index of new API in 1.10

Index of new API in 1.8

Index of new API in 1.6

Index of new API in 1.4

Index of new API in 1.2.3

Index of new API in 1.2

Index of new API in 1.0.10

Index of new API in 1.0.5