# GStreamer Core Reference Manual

## GStreamer Core Support

&cothreads; &GstAtomic; &GstMemChunk;

## GStreamer Core Library

libgst.la provides all the core GStreamer services, including initialization, plugin management and types, as well as the object hierarchy that defines elements and bins, along with some more specialized elements.

&Gst; &GstAutoplug; &GstAutoplugFactory; &GstBin; &GstBuffer; &GstBufferPool; &GstCaps; &GstClock; &GstCpu; &GstData; &GstElement; &GstElementFactory; &GstEvent; &GstFormat; &GstIndex; &GstIndexFactory; &GstInfo; &GstObject; &GstPad; &GstPadTemplate; &GstParse; &GstPipeline; &GstPlugin; &GstPluginFeature; &GstProbe; &GstProps; &GstQuery; &GstRegistry; &GstScheduler; &GstSchedulerFactory; &GstSystemClock; &GstThread; &GstType; &GstTypeFactory; &GstUtils; &GstXML;

## GStreamer Standard Elements

libgstelements.la provide some basic elements like a disk source and sink. The use of these elements is strictly though the g_object_get() and g_object_set() functions and the GStreamer Core Library functions.