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NAME

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

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

12       gst-inspect-1.0  is  a  tool  that  prints out information on available
13       GStreamer plugins, information about a particular plugin,  or  informa‐
14       tion  about a particular element.  When executed with no PLUGIN or ELE‐
15       MENT argument, gst-inspect-1.0 will print a list of all plugins and el‐
16       ements together with a summary.  When executed with a PLUGIN or ELEMENT
17       argument, gst-inspect-1.0 will print information about that plug-in  or
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OPTIONS

21       gst-inspect-1.0 accepts the following arguments and options:
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23       PLUGIN  Name of a plugin
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27       --help  Print help synopsis and available FLAGS
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30               GStreamer info flags to set (list with --help)
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32       -a, --print-all
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42               Allow inspecting only elements that match all the element types
43               filtered in this slash (´/´) separated list of  element  types.
44               Those  types correspond to what is also called ´klass´ which is
45               a string describing the type of element, like  ´Decoder´,  ´Au‐
46               dio´,  ´Encoder´ etc... This options implies that only elements
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49       --exists
50               Check if the specified element or plugin exists
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53               When checking if an element or plugin exists, also  check  that
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56       -u, --uri-handlers
57               Print  supported  URI schemes, with the elements that implement
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61               Disable colors in output. You can also achieve the same by set‐
62               ting ´GST_INSPECT_NO_COLORS´ environment variable to any value.
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65               Color output, even when not connected to a tty.
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67       --print-plugin-auto-install-info
68               Print  a machine-parsable list of features the specified plugin
69               provides.  Useful in connection with external automatic  plugin
70               installation mechanisms.
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73               GStreamer debugging flags to set (list with --help)
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76               GStreamer info and debugging flags to set (list with --help)
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79               GStreamer  info  flags  to  set Enable printout of errors while
80               loading GStreamer plugins
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83               Add directories separated with ':' to the plugin search path
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

86       gst-inspect-1.0 reads the following environment variables, in  addition
87       to  the  generic  GStreamer  environment  variables  also  described in
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91               Override the options passed to less (by default "RXF").
92               See less(1) for more information.
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SEE ALSO

95       gst-launch-1.0(1), gst-typefind-1.0(1)
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AUTHOR

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