GStreamer
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2005
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NAME
gst-inspect - print info about a GStreamer plugin or element
SYNOPSIS
gst-inspect [OPTION...] [PLUGIN|ELEMENT]
DESCRIPTION
gst-inspect is a tool that prints out information on
available GStreamer plugins, information about a particular
plugin, or information about a particular element. When executed
with no PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument, gst-inspect will print
a list of all plugins and elements together with a summary.
When executed with a PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument,
gst-inspect will print information about that plug-in or
element.
OPTIONS
gst-inspect accepts the following arguments and options:
- PLUGIN
-
Name of a plugin
- ELEMENT
-
Name of an element
- --help
-
Print help synopsis and available FLAGS
- --gst-info-mask=FLAGS
-
GStreamer info flags to set (list with --help)
- -a, --print-all
-
Print all plugins and elements
- --print-plugin-auto-install-info
-
Print a machine-parsable list of features the specified plugin provides.
Useful in connection with external automatic plugin installation mechanisms.
- --gst-debug-mask=FLAGS
-
GStreamer debugging flags to set (list with --help)
- --gst-mask=FLAGS
-
GStreamer info and debugging flags to set (list with --help)
- --gst-plugin-spew
-
GStreamer info flags to set
Enable printout of errors while loading GStreamer plugins
- --gst-plugin-path=PATH
-
Add directories separated with ':' to the plugin search path
SEE ALSO
gst-feedback(1),
gst-launch(1),
gst-typefind(1)
AUTHOR
The GStreamer team at
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/