

Will print out a listing of installed plugins. Invoked without any arguments, $ gst-inspect-1.0 To do this you use the gst-inspect command-line tool, which comes How can I see what GStreamer plugins I have on my system? Make sure your volume is turned up, butĪlso make sure it is not too loud and you are not wearing your Running $ gst-launch-1.0 audiotestsrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! pulsesinkĪnd see if you hear something. For example, if you use Pulseaudio,Īnd see if that prints out a bunch of properties for the plug-in. Osssink and oss4sink for OSS/OSSv4 outputĪutoaudiosink for automatic audio output selectionįirst of all, run gst-inspect-1.0 on the output plug-in you want to use

A (non-complete) list of output plug-ins for audio is

Need to link the audiotestsrc element to an output element that matches You can test this by trying to play a sine tone. Can my system play sound through GStreamer? Operating system and windowing system, such as ximagesink or glimagesink If autovideosink doesn't work, try an element that's specific for your To get a test video displayed, try: $ gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! videoconvert ! autovideosink Similar, then GStreamer itself is running correctly. (Some parts of output have been removed for clarity) If it looks This will print out output that looks similar to this: RUNNING pipeline. Type this at the command-line: $ gst-launch-1.0 -v fakesrc silent=false num-buffers=3 ! fakesink silent=false Plug-ins that you really should have : fakesrc and fakesink. GStreamer If this fails with any other message, we You haven't installed GStreamer correctly. If this tells you that there is "no such element or plugin", This should print out a bunch of information about this particularĮlement. You can inspect plugins by typing $ gst-inspect-1.0 fakesrc What can I do next?įirst of all, verify that you have a working installation and that Using GStreamer Ok, I've installed GStreamer.
