GStreamer(1) General Commands Manual GStreamer(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

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

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

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

# [DESCRIPTION](#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](#OPTIONS)

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

[**PLUGIN**](#PLUGIN)

Name of a plugin

[**ELEMENT**](#ELEMENT)

Name of an element

[**--help**](#help)

Print help synopsis and available FLAGS

[**--gst-info-mask=FLAGS**](#gst)

*GStreamer* info flags to set (list with --help)

[**-a, --print-all**](#a,)

Print all plugins and elements

[**-b, --print-blacklist**](#b,)

Print list of blacklisted files

[**--plugin**](#plugin)

List the plugin contents

[**--types=Element/Types**](#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**](#exists)

Check if the specified element or plugin exists

[**--atleast-version**](#atleast)

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

[**-u, --uri-handlers**](#u,)

Print supported URI schemes, with the elements that implement them

[**--no-colors**](#no)

Disable colors in output. You can also achieve the same by setting ´GST\_INSPECT\_NO\_COLORS´ environment variable to any value.

[**-C, --color**](#C,)

Color output, even when not connected to a tty.

[**--print-plugin-auto-install-info**](#print)

Print a machine-parsable list of features the specified plugin provides. Useful in connection with external automatic plugin installation mechanisms.

[**--gst-debug-mask=FLAGS**](#gst~2)

*GStreamer* debugging flags to set (list with --help)

[**--gst-mask=FLAGS**](#gst~3)

*GStreamer* info and debugging flags to set (list with --help)

[**--gst-plugin-path=PATH**](#gst~4)

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

# [ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES](#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)](/man/os/gstreamer/gst-launch-1.0.1):

[**GST\_LESS**](#GST_LESS)

Override the options passed to *less* (by default "RXF").  
See [**less**(1)](/man/os/gstreamer/less.1) for more information.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**gst-launch-1.0**(1)](/man/os/gstreamer/gst-launch-1.0.1), [**gst-typefind-1.0**(1)](/man/os/gstreamer/gst-typefind-1.0.1)

# [AUTHOR](#AUTHOR)

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

December 2005

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Document: gst-inspect-1.0(1) from gstreamer 1.29.2-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/GStreamer/gstreamer