From fef2cdf4724321ae21bf6d3d4596a9f0684a821f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Tim-Philipp=20M=C3=BCller?= Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:40:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs/gst/running.xml: Document GST_REGISTRY_FORK and GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR environment variables. Original commit message from CVS: * docs/gst/running.xml: Document GST_REGISTRY_FORK and GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR environment variables. --- ChangeLog | 6 ++++++ docs/gst/running.xml | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 8b871d0edf..cf6c7a365f 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2006-12-11 Tim-Philipp Müller + + * docs/gst/running.xml: + Document GST_REGISTRY_FORK and GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR + environment variables. + 2006-12-09 Jan Schmidt * tests/check/gst/gstbin.c: (GST_START_TEST): diff --git a/docs/gst/running.xml b/docs/gst/running.xml index 4ea923e3d1..f2b665c18d 100644 --- a/docs/gst/running.xml +++ b/docs/gst/running.xml @@ -165,6 +165,33 @@ to + + <envar>GST_DEBUG_NO_COLOR</envar> + + +Set this environment variable to any value ("1" typically) to switch off +colouring in GST_DEBUG output. This has the same effect as specifying the +--gst-debug-no-color command line option to well-behaved GStreamer +applications (ie. those that pass command-line options correctly to GStreamer). +This is particularly useful to reduce the size of debug output and also allows +for the output to be compressed much better than with colours turned on. + + + + + + <envar>GST_REGISTRY_FORK</envar> + + +Set this environment variable to "no" to prevent GStreamer from forking on +startup in order to update the plugin registry. This is useful for debugging +purposes, but should not be used under normal circumstances, since it means +that plugins may be loaded into memory even if they are not needed by the +application. + + + +