GStreamer(1)

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💖 GStreamer(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the General Commands Manual page for the GStreamer fam, and today we're hyping up its most underrated member: the little type-detector that could. pull up a chair, grab a boba, and let's get into it 🧋✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

gst-typefind-1.0 — print Media type of file

no cap, that's literally the whole job. it looks at a file and tells you what it is. iconic behavior honestly 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gst-typefind-1.0 <file>

that's it. one file. hand it over and let her cook 🍓

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the vibe: gst-typefind-1.0 uses the GStreamer type finding system to figure out two things for you:

  • the relevant GStreamer plugin that would parse or decode the file
  • the corresponding media type

like, it's giving detective energy 🔍 but make it multimedia. you give it a mystery file, it tells you what plugin wants to handle it and what the media type is. periodt. 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

gst-typefind-1.0 accepts the following options:

  • --help — print help synopsis and available FLAGS. your bestie when you forget how anything works (we've all been there 🙈)
  • --gst-info-mask=FLAGS — GStreamer info flags to set (you can list them with --help)
  • --gst-debug-mask=FLAGS — GStreamer debugging flags to set (list with --help)
  • --gst-mask=FLAGS — GStreamer info and debugging flags to set (list with --help)
  • --gst-plugin-path=PATH — add directories separated with : to the plugin search path. yes, colon-separated, like a little squad of directories holding hands 🫶
ngl, those FLAGS values? you gotta run --help to see the full menu. don't come for me, that's just what the page says 😭

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go give these queens their flowers too:

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

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

absolute legends, fr fr 🫡💖

and that's the whole page bestie!! this little cutie has been on the scene since May 2003 — yep, she's a vintage icon and she's still serving ✨ the manual source is GStreamer(1), and honestly? we're obsessed. slay, typefinder, slay 💅🌈⭐

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