gst-inspect-1.0 - print info about a GStreamer plugin or element
gst-inspect-1.0 [OPTION...] [PLUGIN|ELEMENT]
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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 informa-
tion about a particular element. When executed with no PLUGIN or ELE-
MENT argument, gst-inspect-1.0 will print a list of all plugins and
elements together with a summary. When executed with a PLUGIN or ELE-
MENT 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 ele-
ments 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 set-
ting '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
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+-----------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability | library/desktop/gstreamer-1 |
+---------------+-----------------------------+
|Stability | Pass-through volatile |
+---------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
gst-launch-1.0(1), gst-typefind-1.0(1)
AUTHOR
The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://gstreamer.freedesk-
top.org/src/gstreamer/gstreamer-1.18.4.tar.xz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/.
December 2005 GStreamer(1)