IV. Higher-level interfaces for GStreamer applications
In the previous two parts, you have learned many of the internals
and their corresponding low-level interfaces into GStreamer
application programming. Many people will, however, not need so
much control (and as much code), but will prefer to use a standard
playback interface that does most of the difficult internals for
them. In this chapter, we will introduce you into the concept of
autopluggers, playback managing elements and other such things.
Those higher-level interfaces are intended to
simplify GStreamer-based application programming. They do, however,
also reduce the flexibility. It is up to the application developer
to choose which interface he will want to use.