1 .TH GStreamer 1 "December 2005"
3 gst\-inspect\-1.0 \- print info about a GStreamer plugin or element
5 .B gst\-inspect\-1.0 [OPTION...] [PLUGIN|ELEMENT]
8 \fIgst\-inspect\-1.0\fP is a tool that prints out information on
9 available \fIGStreamer\fP plugins, information about a particular
10 plugin, or information about a particular element. When executed
11 with no PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument, \fIgst\-inspect\-1.0\fP will print
12 a list of all plugins and elements together with a summary.
13 When executed with a PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument,
14 \fIgst\-inspect\-1.0\fP will print information about that plug-in or
19 \fIgst\-inspect\-1.0\fP accepts the following arguments and options:
28 Print help synopsis and available FLAGS
30 .B \-\-gst\-info\-mask=FLAGS
31 \fIGStreamer\fP info flags to set (list with \-\-help)
33 .B \-a, \-\-print\-all
34 Print all plugins and elements
36 .B \-b, \-\-print\-blacklist
37 Print list of blacklisted files
40 List the plugin contents
42 .B \-\-types=Element/Types
43 Allow inspecting only elements that match all the element types filtered
44 in this slash (\'/\') separated list of element types. Those types correspond to
45 what is also called \'klass\' which is a string describing the type of
46 element, like \'Decoder\', \'Audio\', \'Encoder\' etc... This options
47 implies that only elements will be printed (not typefind functions or
51 Check if the specified element or plugin exists
53 .B \-\-atleast\-version
54 When checking if an element or plugin exists, also check that its version
55 is at least the version specified
57 .B \-u, \-\-uri\-handlers
58 Print supported URI schemes, with the elements that implement them
60 .B \-u, \-\-no\-colors
61 Disable colors in output. You can also achieve the same by setting
62 \'GST_INSPECT_NO_COLORS\' environment variable to any value.
64 .B \-\-print\-plugin\-auto\-install\-info
65 Print a machine-parsable list of features the specified plugin provides.
66 Useful in connection with external automatic plugin installation mechanisms.
68 .B \-\-gst\-debug\-mask=FLAGS
69 \fIGStreamer\fP debugging flags to set (list with \-\-help)
71 .B \-\-gst\-mask=FLAGS
72 \fIGStreamer\fP info and debugging flags to set (list with \-\-help)
74 .B \-\-gst\-plugin\-spew
75 \fIGStreamer\fP info flags to set
76 Enable printout of errors while loading \fIGStreamer\fP plugins
78 .B \-\-gst\-plugin\-path=PATH
79 Add directories separated with ':' to the plugin search path
82 .BR gst\-launch\-1.0 (1),
83 .BR gst\-typefind\-1.0 (1)
85 The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/