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/