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

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES  SEE ALSO  AUTHOR 

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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

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

gst−inspect−1.0 reads the following environment variables, in addition to the generic GStreamer environment variables also described in gst−launch−1.0(1):
GST_LESS

Override the options passed to less (by default "RXF").
See less(1) for more information.

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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