Gstreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. its plugin-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins.

this package contains unstripped shared libraries. it is provided primarily to provide a backtrace with names in a debugger, this makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps. the libraries are installed in /usr/lib/debug and are automatically used by gdb.