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

Command to display gst-inspect-1.0 manual in Linux: $ man 1 gst-inspect-1.0

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 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.

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', '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

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.

AUTHOR

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