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+title: Building an Application
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+# Building an Application
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+In these chapters, we will discuss the basic concepts of GStreamer and
+the most-used objects, such as elements, pads and buffers. We will use a
+visual representation of these objects so that we can visualize the more
+complex pipelines you will learn to build later on. You will get a first
+glance at the GStreamer API, which should be enough for building
+elementary applications. Later on in this part, you will also learn to
+build a basic command-line application.
+
+Note that this part will give a look into the low-level API and concepts
+of GStreamer. Once you're going to build applications, you might want to
+use higher-level APIs. Those will be discussed later on in this manual.
+