WHIP-CLIENT(1)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, meet whip-client — a simple GStreamer-based WHIP client 🦋 like, it does the WHIP thing, thru GStreamer, and it's cute about it. that's the whole vibe ✨

this one lives in section 1 of the manual (User Commands, iykyk), so it's a command you actually run in your terminal, not some arcane config file situation 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

📎 Usage:

whip-client [OPTION???] -- Simple WHIP client

yeah the [OPTION???] is literally how it's written, no cap, that's the synopsis, we do not question the ???, we simply vibe with it 💀

🫶 Help Options:

• -h, --help — shows you the help options. the classic. when in doubt, -h out 🧚

👑 Application Options:

• -u, --url — the address of the WHIP endpoint. this one's required, bestie, like it's the main character, no url no stream, periodt. 🔥
• -t, --token — authentication Bearer token to use. optional! only if your server's like "who even are you" 🙈
• -A, --audio — the GStreamer pipeline to use for audio. optional… but if you're going audio-only, it's required. so like, optional-optional, know what I mean? 🌈
• -V, --video — the GStreamer pipeline to use for video. also optional, and also required if you're going video-only. same energy as above, symmetric queens 💖
• -n, --no-trickle — don't trickle candidates; instead put them inside the SDP offer. default: false ⭐
• -f, --follow-link — use the Link headers the WHIP server hands back to auto-configure the STUN/TURN servers you should use. default: false 🌸
• -S, --stun-server — the STUN server to use, if any, in the form stun://hostname:port 🦋
• -T, --turn-server — the TURN server to use, if any, in the form turn(s)://username:password@host:port?transport=[udp,tcp]. and bestie — you can call this one multiple times, so stack 'em up 💅
• -F, --force-turn — if TURN servers were provided, this forces using a relay. default: false ✨
• -l, --log-level — the logging level. 0=disable logging, 7=maximum log level. default: 4 👑
• -o, --disable-colors — disables colors in the logging. default: enabled (so the colors are on until you say otherwise 🎀)
• -L, --log-timestamps — enables logging timestamps. default: disabled ⏰
• -H, --http-debugging — HTTP debugging level, and the options are none, minimal, headers, body. default: none 🫶
• -e, --eos-sink-name — the GStreamer sink name for the EOS signal 💀
• -b, --jitter-buffer — the jitter buffer (a.k.a. latency) to use in RTP, measured in milliseconds. default: -1, which means use webrtcbin's default 🌈

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lowkey a reminder that -u/--url is required, and -A/--audio is required if you're audio-only while -V/--video is required if you're video-only. not me double-checking your flags for you 🥰

anyway that's the whole page bestie, no skips, every flag accounted for, we ate that 💅

toodles! this was whip-client version 0.0~git20240308, dated January 2026 🌸💖✨