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GStreamer(1) General Commands Manual GStreamer(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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

SEE ALSO

gst-feedback(1), gst-launch(1), gst-typefind(1)

AUTHOR

The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
December 2005