GStreamer(1)

💖 GStreamer(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the GStreamer(1) manual page, section 1, and it's all about one specific little tool. buckle up, this one's short and sweet 💅

✨ NAME ✨

gst-device-monitor-1.0 — a simple command line testing tool for GStreamer device monitors 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gst-device-monitor-1.0 [DEVICE_CLASSES[:FILTER_CAPS]]
[DEVICE_CLASSES[:FILTER_CAPS]]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so gst-device-monitor-1.0 is a command line tool you can use to test GStreamer's device monitoring functionality. it's giving "quality assurance but make it cute" 🦋

by default it will just print a list of all devices found and exit. that's it. that's the whole vibe. but bestie, you can also make it wait around for more devices by passing the --follow option 👀

you can also pass it one or more filter arguments to filter the kind of devices you are interested in. iconic behaviour honestly ✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

gst-device-monitor-1.0 accepts the following options:

• --help — print help synopsis and available command line options 🫶
• --version — print version and exit ⭐
• -f, --follow — don't exit after showing the initial device list, but wait for devices to be added or removed 👑
• -i, --include-hidden — include devices from hidden device providers 🙈

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

here's the whole mood board of things you can run, fr fr:

gst-device-monitor-1.0

gst-device-monitor-1.0 --follow

gst-device-monitor-1.0 Audio/Source

gst-device-monitor-1.0 Video/Source:video/x-raw

gst-device-monitor-1.0 -i Audio/Sink

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go bother these queens next, they're all in the same friend group 💜

• gst-inspect-1.0(1)
• gst-launch-1.0(1)
• gst-discoverer-1.0(1)
• gst-play-1.0(1)

✨ AUTHOR ✨

the GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ — absolute legends, no cap 🌈

and that's a wrap, bestie! 💖 this page is from June 2014, and it's the GStreamer(1) manual — go forth and monitor those devices, you main character 🎀✨