One benefit of using GStreamer as a multimedia framework is that the core libraries are already built and run on ARM Linux. A GStreamer plugin is the only component required to enable additional hardware features on TI’s embedded processors with both ARM and hardware accelerators for multimedia. The open source GStreamer plugins provide elements for GStreamer pipelines that enable the use of hardware-accelerated video decoding through the V4L2 GStreamer plugin. The Gstreamer plugin and bitstream format support in AM62A processor SDK are given in Table 4-3.