gst-discoverer-1.0(1)

gst-discoverer-1.01

Display file metadata and stream information

Usage

gst-discoverer-1.0 {FILE | DIRECTORY | URI [{FILE2 | DIRECTORY2 | URI2}]}

Overview

gst-discoverer-1.0 is a tool that can be used to print basic metadata and stream information about a media file. It can be run on individual files or whole directories. It will recurse into sub-directories in that case.

Options

gst-discoverer-1.0 accepts the following options:

--help

Print help synopsis and available FLAGS

-v, --verbose

Output all available information

-a, --async

Use asynchronous code path

-t, --timeout=T

Specify timeout in seconds (default: 10 seconds)

-c, --toc

Output TOC (chapters and editions) if available

Releases

Unchanged in 7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie).

  1. 8–Arch

Author

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

From gst-plugins-base-libs 1.28.8-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.