NAME¶

gst-play-1.0 - Simple command line playback testing tool

SYNOPSIS¶

gst-play-1.0 FILE|DIRECTORY|URI [FILE2|DIRECTORY2|URI2]

DESCRIPTION¶

gst-play-1.0 is a command line tool that can be used to test basic playback using the playbin element. You can pass it individual files, URIs or whole directories (in which case it will recurse into sub-directories as well).

OPTIONS¶

gst-play-1.0 accepts the following options:

--help

Print help synopsis and available command line options

--version

Print version and exit

--audiosink=SOMESINK

Use the SOMESINK element as audio sink instead of autoaudiosink

--videosink=SOMESINK

Use the SOMESINK element as video sink instead of autovideosink

--volume=VOLUME

Set initial playback volume to VOLUME, where 0.0=silent and 1.0=unchanged

--shuffle

Shuffle playlist (play files in random order)

--no-interactive

Disable control through keyboard interaction in terminal (see below)

--gapless

Enable gapless playback

-v, --flags

Control playback behaviour setting playbin 'flags' property

-v, --verbose

Output status information and property notifications

-q, --quiet

Do not print any output (apart from errors)

--use-playbin3

Use playbin3 pipeline (default varies depending on 'USE_PLAYBIN' env variable)

--wait-on-eos

Keep showing the last frame on EOS until quit or playlist change command (gapless is ignored)

INTERACTIVE KEYBOARD CONTROL¶

SPACE

Pause/Resume playback

ARROW UP/DOWN

Volume up/down

ARROW LEFT/RIGHT

Seek back/forward

+/-

Increase/decrease playback rate

d

Reverse playback direction

t

Cycle through trick modes

a

Switch audio track

s

Switch subtitle track

v

Switch video track

> or n

Skip to next item in playlist

< or b

Go back to previous item in playlist

0

Seek back to beginning of current track

Q, ESC

Quit

SEE ALSO¶

gst-inspect-1.0(1), gst-launch-1.0(1), gst-discoverer-1.0(1),

AUTHOR¶

The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/