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<refentry id="gst-running" revision="08 Oct 2005">
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>Running GStreamer Applications</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
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<refmiscinfo>GStreamer Core</refmiscinfo>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>Running GStreamer Applications</refname>
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<refpurpose>
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How to run and debug your GStreamer application
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</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsect1>
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<title>Running and debugging GStreamer Applications</title>
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<refsect2>
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<title>Environment variables</title>
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<para>
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GStreamer inspects a few of environment variables in addition to standard
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variables like <envar>LANG</envar>, <envar>PATH</envar> or <envar>HOME</envar>.
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</para>
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<formalpara id="GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH">
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<title><envar>GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH</envar></title>
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<para>
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This environment variable can be set to a colon-separated list of paths.
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If this variable is not set, GStreamer will fill in this list for you
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with
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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plug-ins in the user's home directory. These are stored in a directory called
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<filename>plugins</filename> inside the
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<filename>.gstreamer-&GST_MAJORMINOR;</filename> directory in the user's
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home directory.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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plug-ins installed system-wide. On this system, they are stored in
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<filename>&GST_PLUGINS_DIR;</filename>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>
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GStreamer will scan these paths for GStreamer plug-ins. These plug-ins will
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be loaded after the plug-ins in the GST_PLUGIN_PATH variable below.
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The paths are scanned in the given order. This allows a user to override
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system-installed plug-ins with his own versions.
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</para>
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<para>
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Setting this variable to an empty string will cause GStreamer not to scan any
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system paths at all for plug-ins. This can be useful if you're running
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uninstalled (for development purposes) or while running testsuites.
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</para>
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</formalpara>
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<formalpara id="GST_PLUGIN_PATH">
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<title><envar>GST_PLUGIN_PATH</envar></title>
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<para>
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This environment variable can be set to a colon-separated list of paths.
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GStreamer will scan these paths for GStreamer plug-ins. These plug-ins will
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be loaded in addition to, and before, the plug-ins in the system paths.
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</para>
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</formalpara>
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<formalpara>
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<title><envar>GST_DEBUG</envar></title>
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<para>
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If GStreamer has been configured with <option>--enable-gst-debug=yes</option>,
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this variable can be set to a list of debug options, which cause GStreamer
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to print out different types of debugging information to stderr.
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</para>
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<para>
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The variable takes a comma-separated list of "category_name:level" pairs
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to set specific levels for the individual categories.
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The level value ranges from 0 (nothing) to 5 (LOG).
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>1 - <option>ERROR</option></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Logs all fatal errors. These are errors that do not allow the core or elements
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to perform the requested action. The application can still recover if
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programmed to handle the conditions that triggered the error.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>2 - <option>WARNING</option></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Logs all warnings. Typically these are non-fatal, but user-visible problems
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are expected to happen.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>3 - <option>INFO</option></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Logs all informational messages. These are typically used for events in
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the system that only happen once, or are important and rare enough to be
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logged at this level.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>4 - <option>DEBUG</option></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Logs all debug messages. These are general debug messages for events
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that happen only a limited number of times during an object's lifetime;
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these include setup, teardown, change of parameters, ...
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>5 - <option>LOG</option></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Logs all log messages. These are messages for events
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that happen repeatedly during an object's lifetime;
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these include streaming and steady-state conditions.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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The category_name can contain "<option>*"</option> as a wildcard.
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</para>
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<para>
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For example, setting <envar>GST_DEBUG</envar> to
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<option>GST_AUTOPLUG:5,GST_ELEMENT_*:3</option>, will cause the
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<option>GST_AUTOPLUG</option> category to be logged at full
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<option>LOG</option> level, while all categories starting with
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<option>GST_ELEMENT_</option> will be logged at <option>INFO</option> level.
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</para>
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<para>
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To get all possible debug output, set
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<envar>GST_DEBUG</envar>
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to <option>*:5</option>
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</para>
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</formalpara>
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2006-12-11 13:40:32 +00:00
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<formalpara id="GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR">
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<title><envar>GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR</envar></title>
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<para>
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Set this environment variable to any value ("1" typically) to switch off
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colouring in GST_DEBUG output. This has the same effect as specifying the
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--gst-debug-no-color command line option to well-behaved GStreamer
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applications (ie. those that pass command-line options correctly to GStreamer).
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This is particularly useful to reduce the size of debug output and also allows
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for the output to be compressed much better than with colours turned on.
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</para>
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</formalpara>
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<formalpara id="GST_REGISTRY_FORK">
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<title><envar>GST_REGISTRY_FORK</envar></title>
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<para>
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Set this environment variable to "no" to prevent GStreamer from forking on
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startup in order to update the plugin registry. This is useful for debugging
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purposes, but should not be used under normal circumstances, since it means
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that plugins may be loaded into memory even if they are not needed by the
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application.
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</para>
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</formalpara>
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