gst-play-1.0 - Simple command line playback testing tool
gst-play-1.0 FILE|DIRECTORY|URI [FILE2|DIRECTORY2|URI2]
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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:
--help Print help synopsis and available command line options
--version
Print version and exit
--audiosink=SOMESINK
Use the SOMESINK element as audio sink instead of autoaudiosink
--videosink=SOMESINK
Use the SOMESINK element as video sink instead of autovideosink
--volume=VOLUME
Set initial playback volume to VOLUME, where 0.0=silent and
1.0=unchanged
--shuffle
Shuffle playlist (play files in random order)
--no-interactive
Disable control through keyboard interaction in terminal (see
below)
--gapless
Enable gapless playback
-v, --flags
Control playback behaviour setting playbin 'flags' property
-v, --verbose
Output status information and property notifications
-q, --quiet
Do not print any output (apart from errors)
--use-playbin3
Use playbin3 pipeline (default varies depending on 'USE_PLAY-
BIN' env variable)
--wait-on-eos
Keep showing the last frame on EOS until quit or playlist
change command (gapless is ignored)
INTERACTIVE KEYBOARD CONTROL
SPACE Pause/Resume playback
ARROW UP/DOWN
Volume up/down
ARROW LEFT/RIGHT
Seek back/forward
+/- Increase/decrease playback rate
d Reverse playback direction
t Cycle through trick modes
a Switch audio track
s Switch subtitle track
v 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
Q, ESC Quit
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+----------------------------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+----------------------------------------------+
|Availability | library/desktop/gstreamer-1/gst-plugins-base |
+---------------+----------------------------------------------+
|Stability | Pass-through volatile |
+---------------+----------------------------------------------+
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/
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.freedesktop.org/src/gst-
plugins-base/gst-plugins-base-1.18.4.tar.xz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/.
April 2014 GStreamer(1)