# Multimedia The multimedia elements in the Qt Multimedia makes it possible to playback and record media such as sound, video or pictures. Decoding and encoding are handled through platform-specific backends. For instance, the popular GStreamer framework is used on Linux, WMF is used on Windows, AVFramework on OS X and iOS and the Android multimedia APIs are used on Android. The multimedia elements are not a part of the Qt Quick core API. Instead, they are provided through a separate API made available by importing Qt Multimedia as shown below: ```qml import QtMultimedia ``` --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.novaflowos.com/start/qt6-qml-book/readme/ch11-multimedia/multimedia.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.