GStreamer(1)

💖 GStreamer — gst-play-1.0 💖

okay bestie, so this one is from the GStreamer manual set, and honestly? it's the cutest little playback tool ever. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

gst-play-1.0 — a simple command line playback testing tool 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gst-play-1.0 FILE|DIRECTORY|URI [FILE2|DIRECTORY2|URI2]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so gst-play-1.0 is a command line tool you use to test basic playback, and it does that with the playbin element. that's the whole vibe. 💅

and the way you feed it stuff is so flexible — you can pass it individual files, URIs, or literally whole directories (and if you hand it a directory it will recurse into sub-directories as well, like it's doing a lil deep dive 🫶).

👑 OPTIONS 👑

gst-play-1.0 accepts the following options:

• --help — prints the help synopsis plus all the available command line options ✨
• --version — prints the version and then exits, bye 💨
• --audiosink=SOMESINK — use the SOMESINK element as your audio sink instead of autoaudiosink 🎧
• --videosink=SOMESINK — use the SOMESINK element as your video sink instead of autovideosink 📺
• --volume=VOLUME — sets the initial playback volume to VOLUME, where 0.0 = silent and 1.0 = unchanged 🔉
• --shuffle — shuffles the playlist, so files play in random order 🎲
• --no-interactive — disables control through keyboard interaction in the terminal (peep the section below for that) 🙈
• --gapless — enables gapless playback, no awkward silence between tracks 🌈
• -v, --flags — control playback behaviour by setting the playbin flags property 🚩
• -v, --verbose — outputs status information and property notifications, she's chatty 💬
• -q, --quiet — do not print any output (apart from errors), silent queen 🤫
• --use-playbin3 — use the playbin3 pipeline (the default varies depending on the USE_PLAYBIN env variable) 🔀
• --wait-on-eos — keep showing the last frame on EOS until you quit or issue a playlist change command (heads up: gapless is ignored when you do this) 🖼️

🎮 INTERACTIVE KEYBOARD CONTROL 🎮

okay this part is lowkey the most fun, it's giving main character energy. here's your cheat sheet:

• 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 ✌️

💜 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/ 🫶

okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and test your playback 💖

this lil slice of the manual is dated April 2014 and comes from GStreamer(1) — mwah, iconic, periodt. 💅✨