.TH GStreamer 1 "December 2005"

.SH "NAME"

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

.SH "SYNOPSIS"

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

.SH "DESCRIPTION"

.PP

\fIgst\-inspect\-1.0\fP is a tool that prints out information on

available \fIGStreamer\fP plugins, information about a particular

plugin, or information about a particular element.  When executed

with no PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument, \fIgst\-inspect\-1.0\fP will print

a list of all plugins and elements together with a summary.

When executed with a PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument,

\fIgst\-inspect\-1.0\fP will print information about that plug-in or

element.

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.SH "OPTIONS"

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\fIgst\-inspect\-1.0\fP accepts the following arguments and options:

.TP 8

.B  PLUGIN

Name of a plugin

.TP 8

.B  ELEMENT

Name of an element

.TP 8

.B  \-\-help

Print help synopsis and available FLAGS

.TP 8

.B  \-\-gst\-info\-mask=FLAGS

\fIGStreamer\fP info flags to set (list with \-\-help)

.TP 8

.B  \-a, \-\-print\-all

Print all plugins and elements

.TP 8

.B  \-b, \-\-print\-blacklist

Print list of blacklisted files

.TP 8

.B  \-\-plugin

List the plugin contents

.TP 8

.B  \-\-types=Element/Types

Allow inspecting only elements that match all the element types filtered

in this slash (\'/\') separated list of element types. Those types correspond to

what is also called \'klass\' which is a string describing the type of

element, like \'Decoder\', \'Audio\', \'Encoder\' etc... This options

implies that only elements will be printed (not typefind functions or

tracers).

.TP 8

.B  \-\-exists

Check if the specified element or plugin exists

.TP 8

.B  \-\-atleast\-version

When checking if an element or plugin exists, also check that its version

is at least the version specified

.TP 8

.B  \-u, \-\-uri\-handlers

Print supported URI schemes, with the elements that implement them

.TP 8

.B  \-u, \-\-no\-colors

Disable colors in output. You can also achieve the same by setting

\'GST_INSPECT_NO_COLORS\' environment variable to any value.

.TP 8

.B  \-\-print\-plugin\-auto\-install\-info

Print a machine-parsable list of features the specified plugin provides.

Useful in connection with external automatic plugin installation mechanisms.

.TP 8

.B  \-\-gst\-debug\-mask=FLAGS

\fIGStreamer\fP debugging flags to set (list with \-\-help)

.TP 8

.B  \-\-gst\-mask=FLAGS

\fIGStreamer\fP info and debugging flags to set (list with \-\-help)

.TP 8

.B  \-\-gst\-plugin\-spew

\fIGStreamer\fP info flags to set

Enable printout of errors while loading \fIGStreamer\fP plugins

.TP 8

.B  \-\-gst\-plugin\-path=PATH

Add directories separated with ':' to the plugin search path

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.SH "SEE ALSO"

.BR gst\-launch\-1.0 (1),

.BR gst\-typefind\-1.0 (1)

.SH "AUTHOR"

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