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NAME

gst-play-1.0 - Simple command line playback testing tool

SYNOPSIS

gst-play-1.0 FILE|DIRECTORY|URI [FILE2|DIRECTORY2|URI2]

DESCRIPTION

gst-play-1.0 is a command line tool that can be used to test basic playback using the playbin element. You can pass it individual files, URIs or whole directories (in which case it will recurse into sub-directories as well).

OPTIONS

gst-play-1.0 accepts the following options:

Print help synopsis and available command line options
Print version and exit
Use the SOMESINK element as audio sink instead of autoaudiosink
Use the SOMESINK element as video sink instead of autovideosink
Set initial playback volume to VOLUME, where 0.0=silent and 1.0=unchanged
Shuffle playlist (play files in random order)
Disable control through keyboard interaction in terminal (see below)
Enable gapless playback
Control playback behaviour setting playbin 'flags' property
Output status information and property notifications
Do not print any output (apart from errors)
Use playbin3 pipeline (default varies depending on 'USE_PLAYBIN' env variable)
Keep showing the last frame on EOS until quit or playlist change command (gapless is ignored)

INTERACTIVE KEYBOARD CONTROL

Pause/Resume playback
Volume up/down
Seek back/forward
+/-
Increase/decrease playback rate
Reverse playback direction
Cycle through trick modes
Switch audio track
Switch subtitle track
Switch video track
> or n
Skip to next item in playlist
< or b
Go back to previous item in playlist
0
Seek back to beginning of current track
Quit

SEE ALSO

gst-inspect-1.0(1), gst-launch-1.0(1), gst-discoverer-1.0(1),

AUTHOR

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

April 2014