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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 informa-
tion about a particular element. When executed with no PLUGIN or ELE-
MENT argument, gst-inspect-1.0 will print a list of all plugins and el-
ements 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´, ´Au-
dio´, ´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 set-
ting ´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/
December 2005 GStreamer(1)
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