René Stadler

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GStreamer Inspector

Multimedia system plugin introspection

GStreamer Inspector is an introspection data viewer for the GStreamer multimedia framework. Developers of GStreamer applications can use it to find out about the various elements available in the system.

It can be thought of as a graphical variant of the gst-inspect program, which currently serves as the canonical source of introspection information for most developers.

This program is free software under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Source code is maintained using git:
git://people.freedesktop.org/~cymacs/gst-inspector

A bug tracker can be found on the Launchpad project page.

Features

The program presents:

Element details — description, classification, rank, authors, interfaces, URI protocols, class hierarchy
Plugin details — description, version, license, source module, binary package, filename, origin
Pad information — direction, availability and caps
Properties — description, inheritance, flags, data type, default value, value ranges, flags and enum value names and nick names
Signals — inheritance, parameters and return type

Finding elements is fast and straightforward:

Find-as-you-type functionality of the list view gets you to any element by name with a few strokes
Filtering — restrict element list by author, binary package, caps name, classification, interface, license, parent class, source module, URI protocol
Uses a compact on-disk cache to achieve fast program startup time (after the first run) and reasonably low memory usage