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NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       gst-inspect  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 will print a list of all  plugins  and  elements
       together  with  a  summary.  When executed with a PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument, gst-inspect will print information about that plug-in or ele-
       ment.

OPTIONS

       gst-inspect 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

       --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

SEE ALSO

       gst-feedback(1), gst-launch(1), gst-typefind(1)

AUTHOR

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

								   December 2005						      GStreamer(1)