# GStreamer &GST_API_VERSION; Library Reference Manual

for GStreamer Library &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-libs/html/.

## GStreamer Libraries

To ease the creation of plugins, a library system was created. The most common functions for a plugin can be found in a library.

GStreamer provides some standard libraries you can use to create plugins.

### GStreamer Base and Utillity Classes

libgstbase-&GST_API_VERSION;.so provides some base classes to be extended by elements and utillity classes that are most useful for plugin developers.

### GStreamer Dynamic Parameter Control

libgstcontroller-&GST_API_VERSION;.so provides functionality to animate element properties over time.

### GStreamer Network Classes

libgstnet-&GST_API_VERSION;.so provides network elements and objects.

### GStreamer Check Unit Testing

libgstcheck-&GST_API_VERSION;.so provides functionality for writing unit tests that use the check framework.

## Object Hierarchy

API Index

Index of deprecated API