GStreamer

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2005
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NAME

gst-inspect-1.0 - print info about a GStreamer plugin or element  

SYNOPSIS

gst-inspect-1.0 [OPTION...] [PLUGIN|ELEMENT]  

DESCRIPTION

gst-inspect-1.0 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-1.0 will print a list of all plugins and elements together with a summary. When executed with a PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument, gst-inspect-1.0 will print information about that plug-in or element.  

OPTIONS

gst-inspect-1.0 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
-b, --print-blacklist
Print list of blacklisted files
--plugin
List the plugin contents
--types=Element/Types
Allow inspecting only elements that match all the element types filtered in this slash ('/') separated list of element types. Those types correspond to what is also called 'klass' which is a string describing the type of element, like 'Decoder', 'Audio', 'Encoder' etc... This options implies that only elements will be printed (not typefind functions or tracers).
--exists
Check if the specified element or plugin exists
--atleast-version
When checking if an element or plugin exists, also check that its version is at least the version specified
-u, --uri-handlers
Print supported URI schemes, with the elements that implement them
--no-colors
Disable colors in output. You can also achieve the same by setting 'GST_INSPECT_NO_COLORS' environment variable to any value.
-C, --color
Color output, even when not connected to a tty.
--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-launch-1.0(1), gst-typefind-1.0(1)  

AUTHOR

The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR