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MAN Solaris - gst-inspect (1)

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gst-inspect - print information about a GStreamer element or plugin

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gst-inspect [-a] [--print-all] [--version] [gst-std-options] [element | plugin]

gst-inspect prints information about available GStreamer plugins, information about a particular plugin, or information about a particular element.

If no element or plugin argument is specified, gst-inspect prints a list of all plugins and elements. If an element or plugin argument is specified, gst-inspect prints information about that element or plug-in. If a given argument is valid as either an element or a plugin, gst-inspect treats the argument as an element, by default.

The following options are supported by gst-inspect:

-a, --print-all Print all elements.

--version Print GStreamer version number.

gst-std-options Standard options available for use with most GStreamer applications. See gst-std-options(5) for more information.

The following operands are supported:

element Name of an element.

plugin Name of a plugin.

Example 1: Displaying Information About a Plugin:

example% gst-inspect alaw
Plugin Details:
 Name:                 alaw
 Description:          ALaw audio conversion routines
 Filename:             /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstalaw.so
 Version:              0.10.3
 License:              LGPL
 Source module:        gst-plugins-good
 Binary package:       GStreamer Good Plug-ins source release
 Origin URL:           Unknown package origin

 alawdec: A Law audio decoder
 alawenc: A Law audio encoder

 2 features:
 +-- 2 elements

The following files are used by this application:

/usr/bin/gst-inspect Print information about a GStreamer element or plugin

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWgnome-media
Interface stability	Volatile

gst-feedback(1), gst-launch(1), gst-typefind(1), gst-xmlinspect(1), gst-xmllaunch(1), gstreamer-properties(1), libgstreamer-0.10(3), gst-std-options(5)

Original man page written by the GStreamer team at http://www.gstreamer.net/.

Updated by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004, 2006.

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