gst-xmlinspect 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-xmlinspect will print a list of all plugins and elements. When executed with a PLUGIN or ELEMENT argument, gst-xmlinspect will print information about that plug-in or element as an XML document.

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)

--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