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| author | Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.net> | 2013-02-13 23:27:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.net> | 2013-02-13 23:27:16 +0000 |
| commit | b22385af0a3eca5dcc3e35c13ea5cc66dc4cd4d8 (patch) | |
| tree | 65df478246b966fb5c760f0f6fbac46918f09408 /tools | |
| parent | 21c4c718b243a52cce0f99424a9ca22a8ae709eb (diff) | |
docs: flesh out gst-launch-1.0 man page a little
Fix up default location of the registry.
Mention more options for GST_DEBUG (wildcards and
named debug levels).
Explain what to do with the dot files that can be
produced by setting GST_DEBUG_DUMP_DOT_DIR.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693607
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/gst-launch.1.in | 18 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/gst-launch.1.in b/tools/gst-launch.1.in index dece2f977..13eadb3fd 100644 --- a/tools/gst-launch.1.in +++ b/tools/gst-launch.1.in @@ -406,20 +406,26 @@ samples and a sample rate between 32kHz and 64KHz. .SH "ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES" .TP \fBGST_DEBUG\fR -Comma-separated list of debug categories and levels, e.g. -GST_DEBUG=totem:4,typefind:5 +Comma-separated list of debug categories and levels (e.g. +GST_DEBUG=totem:4,typefind:5). '*' is allowed as a wildcard as part of +debug category names (e.g. GST_DEBUG=*sink:6,*audio*:6). Since 1.2.0 it is +also possible to specify the log level by name (1=ERROR, 2=WARN, 3=FIXME, +4=INFO, 5=DEBUG, 6=LOG, 7=TRACE, 9=MEMDUMP) (e.g. GST_DEBUG=*audio*:LOG) .TP \fBGST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR\fR When this environment variable is set, coloured debug output is disabled. .TP \fBGST_DEBUG_DUMP_DOT_DIR\fR -When set to a filesystem path, store dot files of pipeline graphs there. +When set to a filesystem path, store 'dot' files of pipeline graphs there. +These can then later be converted into an image using the 'dot' utility from +the graphviz set of tools, like this: dot foo.dot -Tsvg -o foo.svg (png or jpg +are also possible as output format) .TP \fBGST_REGISTRY\fR Path of the plugin registry file. Default is -~/.gstreamer-GST_API_VERSION/registry-CPU.bin where CPU is the machine/cpu type -GStreamer was compiled for, e.g. 'i486', 'i686', 'x86-64', 'ppc', etc. (check -the output of "uname -i" and "uname -m" for details). +~/.cache/gstreamer-GST_API_VERSION/registry-CPU.bin where CPU is the +machine/cpu type GStreamer was compiled for, e.g. 'i486', 'i686', 'x86-64', +'ppc', etc. (check the output of "uname -i" and "uname -m" for details). .TP \fBGST_REGISTRY_UPDATE\fR Set to "no" to force GStreamer to assume that no plugins have changed, |