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# Dependencies
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## Why are there so many dependencies ?
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Making a full-featured media framework is a huge undertaking in
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itself. By using the work done by others, we both reduce the amount of
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redundant work being done and leave ourselves free to work on the
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architecture itself instead of working on the low-level stuff. We would
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be stupid not to reuse the code others have written.
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However, do realize that in no way you are forced to have all
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dependencies installed. None of the core developers has all of them
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installed. GStreamer has only a few obligate dependencies : GLib 2.0,
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liborc, and very common stuff like glibc, a C compiler, and so on. All
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of the other dependencies are optional.
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So, in closing, let's rephrase the question to “Why are you giving me so
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many choices and such a rich environment ?”
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## Is GStreamer X independent ?
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Yes, we have no hard X dependency in any of our modules. There
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are many GStreamer applications that run fine without any need for X,
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for example streaming servers, transcoding applications, or audio
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applications that don't output any video. Other applications output
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video to a framebuffer, custom-made hardware sinks, or via wayland.
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## What is GStreamer's position on efforts such as LADSPA ?
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GStreamer actively supports such efforts, and in the case of
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[LADSPA](http://www.ladspa.org/), we already have a wrapper plugin. This
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wrapper plug-in detects the LADSPA plugins present on your system at run
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time.
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## Does GStreamer support MIDI ?
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Not yet. The GStreamer architecture should be able to support the
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needs of MIDI applications very well however. If you are a developer
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interested in adding MIDI support to GStreamer we are very interested in
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getting in touch with you.
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MIDI playback is provided by plugins such as wildmidi and timidity.
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## Does GStreamer depend on GNOME or GTK+ ?
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No. But many of the applications developed for GStreamer do,
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including some of our sample applications. Other applications use the Qt
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toolkit, or are written for Mac OS/X or Windows. We aim to provide API
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that is toolkit agnostic and can be used from any toolkit, desktop
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environment or operating system.
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