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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

gst-inspect-1.0 is a tool that prints out information on available
GStreamer plugins, information about a particular plugin, or
information about a particular element. When executed with no PLUGIN
or ELEMENT argument, gst-inspect-1.0 will print a list of all plugins
and elements together with a summary. When executed with a PLUGIN or
ELEMENT argument, gst-inspect-1.0 will print information about that
plug-in or element.

OPTIONS

gst-inspect-1.0 accepts the following arguments and options:

PLUGIN Name of a plugin

ELEMENT Name of an element

--help Print help synopsis and available FLAGS

--gst-info-mask=FLAGS
GStreamer info flags to set (list with --help)

-a, --print-all
Print all plugins and elements

-b, --print-blacklist
Print list of blacklisted files

--plugin
List the plugin contents

--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).

--exists
Check if the specified element or plugin exists

--atleast-version
When checking if an element or plugin exists, also check that
its version is at least the version specified

-u, --uri-handlers
Print supported URI schemes, with the elements that implement
them

--no-colors
Disable colors in output. You can also achieve the same by
setting 'GST_INSPECT_NO_COLORS' environment variable to any
value.

-C, --color
Color output, even when not connected to a tty.

--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.

--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-spew
GStreamer info flags to set Enable printout of errors while
loading GStreamer plugins

--gst-plugin-path=PATH
Add directories separated with ':' to the plugin search path

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

gst-inspect-1.0 reads the following environment variables, in
addition to the generic GStreamer environment variables also
described in gst-launch-1.0(1):

GST_LESS
Override the options passed to less (by default "RXF").
See less(1) for more information.

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