spa-inspect(1)

💅 spa-inspect(1) — the PipeWire SPA plugin info utility, bestie edition

okay so real talk, you know how the manual name is spa-inspect and it lives in the General Commands Manual section? Yeah. That's the one. Let's get into it 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

spa-inspect FILE

literally just hand it a FILE and it does its thing. that's the whole vibe check 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Displays information about a SPA plugin. No cap, that's the job 💅

It lists the SPA factories contained in the plugin, and then it tries to instantiate them — like, it actually pokes them to see if they wake up ✨ iconic behaviour, honestly.

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

spa-inspect /usr/lib/spa-0.2/bluez5/libspa-codec-bluez5-sbc.so

that command right there? it will display information about a plugin. yes bestie, that's it, that's the whole demonstration 🎀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The PipeWire Developers 💜

• their issues live at <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>
• and PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org>

go follow them, they're the main characters of this whole story fr fr 🌟

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• pipewire(1) — the big one, the parent, the moment 🌈

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! 🎀 this page came to you from PipeWire, version 1.6.8 — spa-inspect(1), General Commands Manual, no date drama attached. mwah 💋✨