gst-md5sum generates MD5 checksums of the data generated by a GStreamer pipeline.

In theory, running

gst-md5sum filesrc location=music.mp3

should print out the same checksum as

md5sum music.mp3

The pipeline should be incomplete, that is, a final sink element should be omitted, so that gst-md5sum can connect the pipeline to an md5sink element.

See the man page for gst-launch or the GStreamer docuementation for more information on how to create a PARTIAL-PIPELINE-DESCRIPTION.

--help

Print help synopsis and available FLAGS

-v

Output verbose information

--gst-info-mask=FLAGS

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

--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