# gstreamermm Reference Manual

### 0.10.7.1

## description

gstreamermm provides C++ bindings for the GStreamer streaming multimedia library. With gstreamermm it is possible to develop applications that work with multimedia in C++.

## features

gstreamermm is developed over glibmm, libsigc++ and libxml++ and the functionalities they provide. This means that, among other things, referencing and unreferencing of GObjects is handled automatically via glibmm's automatic pointer class, Glib:RefPtr<>, and libsigc++'s slots are used for callbacks and signals.

## basics

Include the gstreamermm header:

     #include <gstreamermm.h>

(You may include individual headers, such as `gstreamermm/pipeline.h` instead.)

If your source file is `program.cc`, you can compile it with:

     g++ program.cc -o program `pkg-config --cflags --libs gstreamermm-0.10`

Alternatively, if using autoconf, use the following in `configure.ac:`

     PKG_CHECK_MODULES([GSTREAMERMM], [gstreamermm-0.10])

Then use the generated `GSTREAMERMM_CFLAGS` and `GSTREAMERMM_LIBS` variables in the project `Makefile.am` files. For example:

     program_CPPFLAGS = $(GSTREAMERMM_CFLAGS)
     program_LDADD = $(GSTREAMERMM_LIBS)