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Week 3: GStreamer

📄️ 3-3 Developing GStreamer Plugins

GStreamer plugins are modular components that extend the functionality of the GStreamer multimedia framework by providing specific capabilities like data sources, filters, encoders, decoders, and sinks. Each plugin contains one or more elements that perform a particular task, such as reading from a file, decoding video, applying effects, or streaming media over a network. Plugins are categorized into groups like base, good, bad, and ugly based on their quality, licensing, and stability. They allow developers to create complex media pipelines by combining elements dynamically, making GStreamer highly flexible and extensible for diverse multimedia applications.