gst-inspect-0.10(1)

gst-inspect-0.101

Print info about a gstreamer plugin or element

Usage

gst-inspect [OPTION ...] [{PLUGIN | ELEMENT}]

Overview

gst-inspect 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 will print a list of all plugins and elements together with a summary. When executed with a PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument, gst-inspect will print information about that plug-in or element.

Options

gst-inspect 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

--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

Releases

5 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 4.0
  2. 5.0–6.0
  3. 7–8

--print-all since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); --print-plugin-auto-install-info since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); -a since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

Author

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

From gstreamer0.10-tools 0.10.36-1.5 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.