# Autopluggers

&GStreamer; has an autoplugging mechanism, which enables application writers to simply specify start and end elements for a path, and the system will then create a path which links these elements, in accordance with the type information provided by the elements.

It is possible to devise many different schemes for generating such pathways, perhaps to optimise based on special criteria, or with some specific constraints. It is thus possible to define new autoplugging systems, using the plugin system.