gstreamer(1)

NAME

gst-launch-0.8 - build and run a GStreamer pipeline

SYNOPSIS

gst-launch-0.8 [OPTION...] PIPELINE-DESCRIPTION

DESCRIPTION

Arraymentation.

OPTIONS

gst-launch-0.8 accepts the following options:

--help Print help synopsis and available FLAGS

Array-t, --tags

Print tags found in the streams, if any.

--version

Show version information and exit.

GSTREAMER OPTIONS

Arraythe range 0-5 where 0 will show no messages, and 5 will show all
messages. The wildcard * can be used to match category names.
Use --gst-debug-help to show category names

Arrayvironment variable GST_PLUGIN_PATH
--gst-scheduler=SCHEDULER

Use SCHEDULER as the default scheduler

--gst-registry=REGISTRY

Use the file REGISTRY as registry instead of the

default

PIPELINE DESCRIPTION

Arrayspecified in a pipeline description in any order.
Elements

ELEMENTTYPE [PROPERTY1 ...]

ArrayProperties

PROPERTY=VALUE ...

Arraydifferent elements.
Enumeration properties can be set by name, nick or value.

Bins

[BINTYPE.] ( [PROPERTY1 ...] PIPELINE-DESCRIPTION ) { [PROPERTY1 ...] PIPELINE-DESCRIPTION }

Arrayinto the bin. Using curly braces (second line) is a short cut for
using the first line and "thread" as the BINTYPE.
Please not the dot that has to be used after the BINTYPE.

Links

ArrayThis is a change to the old syntax used up to version 0.6 that
allowed omitting the dot when only specifying a padname.
Caps

Array'. If you want to chain caps, you can add more caps in the same
format afterwards.
Properties

NAME[:TYPE]=VALUE
in lists and ranges: [TYPE=]VALUE

ArrayBoolean values are (case insensitive) yes, no, true or false and may like strings be escaped with " or '.
Ranges are in this format: [ PROPERTY, PROPERTY ]
Lists use this format: ( PROPERTY [, PROPERTY ...] )

PIPELINE CONTROL

Arrayplicitly.

PIPELINE EXAMPLES

ArrayUse GNOME-VFS to play an mp3 file located on an SMB server

ArrayConvert to the FLAC format

ArrayConvert a .WAV file into Ogg Vorbis (or mp3) file

Arraydemuxer. ! queue ! mad ! osssink } Play an AVI movie

Network streaming

ArrayThis command would be run on the transmitter

ArrayFiltered connections

ArrayPlayback currently recorded audio. Force usage of signed

16 to 32 bit samples.

SEE ALSO

gst-complete-0.8(1), gst-register-0.8(1),

gst-inspect-0.8(1)

AUTHOR

The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.net/

April 2003

GStreamer(1)