More blablah about how cool GStreamer really is..

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More blablah about how cool GStreamer really is..
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libraries can be made with a minimum of effort.
</para>
<para>
The GStreamer core function is to provide a framework for plugins, data flow
and media type handling/negotiation.
It also provides an API to write applications using the various plugins.
</para>
<para>
This book is about GStreamer from a developer's point of view; it describes
how to write a GStreamer application using the GStreamer libraries and tools.

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</sect2>
<sect2 id="sec-motivation-goal">
<title>'One goal' media players</title>
<title>'One goal' media players/libraries</title>
<para>
Your typical MPEG player was designed to play MPEG video and audio. Most of
these players have implemented a complete infrastructure focused on
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of the player and duplicate them into my own AVI encoder. These
algorithms cannot easily be shared accross applications.
</para>
<para>
Attempts have been made to create libraries for handling various media types.
Because they focus on a very specific media type (avifile, libmpeg2, ...),
significant work is needed to integrate them due to a lack of a common API.
GStreamer allows you to wrap these libraries with a common API, which
significantly simplifies integration and reuse.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="sec-motivation-plugin">
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</para>
<para>
While GStreamer also uses it own plugin system it offers a very rich
framework for the plugin.
framework for the plugin developper and ensures the plugin can be used
in a wide range of applications, transparently interacting with other
plugins.
</para>
</sect2>