GStreamer

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Updated: April 2014
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NAME

gst-play-1.0 - Simple command line playback testing tool

SYNOPSIS

gst-play-1.0 FILE|DIRECTORY|URI [FILE2|DIRECTORY2|URI2]

DESCRIPTION

gst-play-1.0 is a command line tool that can be used to test basic playback using the playbin element. You can pass it individual files, URIs or whole directories (in which case it will recurse into sub-directories as well).

OPTIONS

gst-play-1.0 accepts the following options:

--help: Print help synopsis and available command line options
--version: Print version and exit
--audiosink=SOMESINK: Use the SOMESINK element as audio sink instead of autoaudiosink
--videosink=SOMESINK: Use the SOMESINK element as video sink instead of autovideosink
--volume=VOLUME: Set initial playback volume to VOLUME, where 0.0=silent and 1.0=unchanged
--shuffle: Shuffle playlist (play files in random order)
--no-interactive: Disable control through keyboard interaction in terminal (see below)
--gapless: Enable gapless playback

INTERACTIVE KEYBOARD CONTROL

SPACE: Pause/Resume playback
ARROW UP/DOWN: Volume up/down
ARROW LEFT/RIGHT: Seek back/forward
+/-: Increase/decrease playback rate
d: Reverse playback direction
t: Cycle through trick modes
a: Switch audio track
s: Switch subtitle track
v: Switch video track
> or n: Skip to next item in playlist
< or b: Go back to previous item in playlist
0: Seek back to beginning of current track
Q, ESC: Quit

AUTHOR

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