gst-device-monitor-1.0(1)

gst-device-monitor-1.01

Simple command line testing tool for gstreamer device monitors

Usage

gst-device-monitor-1.0 [DEVICE_CLASSES [:FILTER_CAPS]] [DEVICE_CLASSES [:FILTER_CAPS]]

Overview

gst-device-monitor-1.0 is a command line tool that can be used to test GStreamer's device monitoring functionality. By default it will just print a list of all devices found and exit, but you can also make it wait around for more devices by passing the --follow option. You can also pass it one or more filter arguments to filter the kind of devices you are interested in.

Options

gst-device-monitor-1.0 accepts the following options:

--help

Print help synopsis and available command line options

--version

Print version and exit

-f, --follow

Don't exit after showing the initial device list, but wait for devices to be added or removed

-i, --include-hidden

Include devices from hidden device providers.

Examples

gst-device-monitor-1.0

gst-device-monitor-1.0 --follow
gst-device-monitor-1.0 Audio/Source
gst-device-monitor-1.0 Video/Source:video/x-raw
gst-device-monitor-1.0 -i Audio/Sink

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 8–11
  2. 12–Arch

--include-hidden since Debian 12 (Bookworm); -i since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

Author

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

From gst-plugins-base-libs 1.28.8-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-07. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.