spa-inspect(1) General Commands Manual spa-inspect(1)

# [NAME](#NAME)

spa-inspect - The PipeWire SPA plugin information utility

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

**spa-inspect** *FILE*

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

Displays information about a SPA plugin.

Lists the SPA factories contained, and tries to instantiate them.

# [EXAMPLES](#EXAMPLES)

**spa-inspect** /usr/lib/spa-0.2/bluez5/libspa-codec-bluez5-sbc.so

Display information about a plugin.

# [AUTHORS](#AUTHORS)

The PipeWire Developers <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is available from <https://pipewire.org>

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

[**pipewire(1)**](/man/os/pipewire/pipewire.1)

1.6.11 PipeWire

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Document: spa-inspect(1) from pipewire 1.6.11-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire