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/