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<chapter id="cha-doicare">
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<title>Do I care?</title>
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<para>
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This guide explains how to write new modules for GStreamer. It is
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relevant to:
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</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Anyone who wants to add support for new input and output
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devices, often called sources and sinks. For example,
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adding the ability to write to a new video output system
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could be done by writing an appropriate sink plugin.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Anyone who wants to add support for new ways of processing
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data in GStreamer, often called
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filters. For example, a new data format converter could be
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created.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Anyone who wants to extend GStreamer in
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any way: you need to have an understanding of how the plugin system
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works before you can understand the constraints it places on the
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rest of the code. And you might be surprised at how much can be
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done with plugins.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>
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This guide is not relevant to you if you only want to use the existing
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functionality of GStreamer, or use an application which uses GStreamer.
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You lot can go away. Shoo... (You might find the <emphasis>GStreamer
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Application Development Manual</emphasis> helpful though.)
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</para>
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</chapter>
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<chapter id="cha-prelimreading">
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<title>Preliminary reading</title>
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<para>
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The reader should be familiar with the basic workings of
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<application>GStreamer</application>. For a gentle introduction to
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GStreamer, you may wish to read the <emphasis>GStreamer Application
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Development Manual</emphasis>. Since <application>GStreamer</application>
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adheres to the GTK+ programming model, the reader is also assumed to
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understand the basics of GTK+.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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