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    <title>GStreamer Properties Manual V2.4</title>       

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      <year>2003</year> 
      <holder>Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller</holder> 
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      <para>GStreamer Properties lets you configure parameters related to the hardware and multimedia</para>
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			<revnumber>GStreamer Properties Manual V2.4</revnumber> 
			<date>Setembre de 2003</date> 
			<revdescription> 
	  			<para role="author">Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller</para>
	  			<para role="publisher">Projècte de documentacion de GNOME</para>
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			<revnumber>GStreamer Properties Manual V1.0</revnumber> 
			<date>Decembre de 2003</date> 
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	  			<para role="author">Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller</para>
	  			<para role="publisher">Projècte de documentacion de GNOME</para>
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    <primary>GStreamer properties</primary> 
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  <sect1 id="gstreamer-properties-introduction"> 
    <title>Introduccion</title> 
    <para>The <application>GStreamer Properties</application> application enables you to configure parameters related to the hardware and multimedia systems on your system. Only advanced users should normally need this as your OS vendor should be shipping the system with the correct defaults.</para> 
  </sect1>

  <sect1 id="gstreamer-properties-getting-started">
    <title>Per començar</title> 

    <para>You can start <application>GStreamer Properties</application> in the following ways:
    </para> 
    <variablelist>
    	<varlistentry>
    		<term>Menut <guimenu>Applications</guimenu></term>
    		<listitem>
    		<para>Choose <menuchoice><guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu>
			<guimenuitem>Gstreamer Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
    		</listitem>
    	</varlistentry>
    	<varlistentry>
    		<term>Linha de comanda</term>
    		<listitem>
    		<para>Type <command>gstreamer-properties</command>, then press <keycap>Return</keycap>.</para>
    		<para> 		 
    		</para> 
    		</listitem>
    	</varlistentry>
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    <para>When you start <application>GStreamer Properties</application>, the following window is displayed.</para>

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	      <phrase>Shows GStreamer Properties main window. Contains menubar, toolbar, drop-down menus for the input and output audio options. </phrase> 
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  <sect1 id="gstreamer-properties-usage"> 
    <title>Utilizacion</title>
	<para>The GStreamer properties capplet offers four drop down menus spread over two tabs.
	There are two drop-menues for audio and two for video. These choices set the default for most GNOME applications for output and input of Sound and Video.</para>
  <sect2 id="gstreamer-properties-concepts">
    	<title>Understanding the menu options</title>
    	<para>Looking at the screen for setting audio options you notice that the two sections 		says are called Default Sink and Default Source. These are terms used in the GStreamer 		framework that GNOME uses to describe where data is sent and where it comes from. The 		Default sink is in other words where GNOME apps should output their sound, while 		Default source is where the sound comes from.</para>
	<para>The reason you might want to alter these settings is because under Unix there are 
	many different audio systems and sound server which you might want to output to. For	
	for instance on Linux popular alternatives are the OSS sound system, the ALSA sound 
	system, the ESD sound server and the ARTSd sound server.</para>
	<para>For instance if you wish that your GNOME applcations output their sound to the 
	ESD sound server you set the Default Sink to use ESD. And if you wish that your GNOME 
	applications which has sound recording capabilities use the OSS sound system to do this 
	you choose OSS as the Default Source.</para>
	<para>As mentioned elsewhere in this user guide. These setting are meant for as a tool 		for advanced users who have specialized need. As an ordinary user you should not need 	
	to set these as the vendor of your distribution of Linux or Unix should have set them 
	for you and sensible defaults.</para> 
    	
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