Base Utils Library: GStreamer Base Plugins 1.0 Library Reference Manual

Base Utils Library

Pbutils — General Application and Plugin Utility Library
Version — GStreamer gst-plugins-base libraries version macros.
Codec utilities — Miscellaneous codec-specific utility functions
Descriptions — Provides human-readable descriptions for caps/codecs and encoder, decoder, URI source and URI sink elements
Missing plugins — Create, recognise and parse missing-plugins messages
Install-plugins — Missing plugin installation support for applications
GstDiscoverer — Utility for discovering information on URIs.
GstEncodingProfile — Encoding profile library

This library should be linked to by getting cflags and libs from gstreamer-plugins-base-1.0.pc and adding -lgstpbutils-1.0 to the library flags.