Man1 - gst-inspect-1.0.1

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

gst-inspect-1.0 [OPTION…] [PLUGIN|ELEMENT]

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.

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

*gst-launch-1.0*(1), *gst-typefind-1.0*(1)

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