GStreamer(1)

💖 GStreamer(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the GStreamer(1) manual page, General Commands Manual edition. Sit down, grab a boba, and let me tell you about gst-inspect-1.0. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

gst-inspect-1.0 — print info about a GStreamer plugin or element

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gst-inspect-1.0 [OPTION...] [PLUGIN|ELEMENT]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So gst-inspect-1.0 is that girl. She prints out info on the GStreamer plugins you've got available, info about one specific plugin, or info about one specific element. Very demure, very mindful.

When you run her with no PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument at all, she prints a list of every plugin and element together with a lil summary. And when you do hand her a PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument, she prints the info about that plug-in or element. Simple as. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

gst-inspect-1.0 accepts the following arguments and options:

• PLUGIN — the name of a plugin
• ELEMENT — the name of an element
• --help — prints the help synopsis and the available FLAGS
• --gst-info-mask=FLAGS — GStreamer info flags to set (list them with --help)
• -a, --print-all — prints all plugins and elements, all of them, the whole roster 👑
• -b, --print-blacklist — prints the list of blacklisted files 🙈
• --plugin — lists the plugin contents
• --types=Element/Types — lets you inspect only the elements that match all the element types filtered in this slash (/) separated list of element types. Those types are what's also called klass, which is a string describing the type of element, like Decoder, Audio, Encoder etc... Heads up though: this option implies that only elements get printed (no typefind functions, no tracers, none of that).
• --exists — checks if the specified element or plugin exists
• --atleast-version — when checking if an element or plugin exists, it also checks that its version is at least the version specified
• -u, --uri-handlers — prints the supported URI schemes, along with the elements that implement them
• --no-colors — disables colors in the output. You can also pull off the exact same thing by setting the GST_INSPECT_NO_COLORS environment variable to any value. iykyk 🌈
• -C, --color — colors the output, even when you're not connected to a tty. main character energy, she refuses to be washed out 💅
• --print-plugin-auto-install-info — prints a machine-parsable list of the features the specified plugin provides. Super useful in connection with external automatic plugin installation mechanisms.
• --gst-debug-mask=FLAGS — GStreamer debugging flags to set (list them with --help)
• --gst-mask=FLAGS — GStreamer info and debugging flags to set (list them with --help)
• --gst-plugin-path=PATH — adds directories separated with ':' to the plugin search path

🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

gst-inspect-1.0 reads the following environment variables, on top of the generic GStreamer environment variables that are also described over in gst-launch-1.0(1):

• GST_LESS — overrides the options passed to less (by default it's "RXF"). See less(1) for more info.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

gst-launch-1.0(1), gst-typefind-1.0(1)

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

and that's the whole page, bestie — no cap, every last flag accounted for. 🫶

This was the GStreamer(1) man page, dated December 2005, from the General Commands Manual, source and version and all. Obsessed with her fr fr. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸