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It is a random number, but it will in most cases give people a hint that gst-validate reported a critical issue, and thus set the return code, only by looking at it Also make use of gst_validate_runner_print() in gst-validate-transcoding.c as we were copy pasting that method there.
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=== The GstValidate CLI Tools
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The commands here assume that you have installed gst-validate. If this
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is not the case, go into the gst-validate directory and call the tools
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directly with the path tools/<tool-executable>
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1- gst-validate-1.0: It is the simplest tool and is used to run a gst
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launch style pipeline. Monitors are added to it to identify issues in the
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used elements. At the end a report will be printed, this report will
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contain informations about all issues that were encontered while running
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gst-validate. To view issues as they are created, set the environment
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variable GST_DEBUG=validate:2 and it will be printed as gstreamer
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debugging. You can basically run any GstPipeline pipeline using it.
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If you are not familiar with gst-launch syntax, please refer to
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gst-launch's documentation.
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Examples:
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# Simple playback pipeline
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gst-validate-1.0 playbin uri=file:///path/to/some/media/file
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# Transcoding pipeline
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gst-validate-1.0 filesrc location=/root/Videos/big_buck_bunny_1080p_h264.mov ! \
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qtdemux name=d ! queue ! x264enc ! h264parse ! mpegtsmux name=m ! progressreport ! filesink location=/root/test.ts \
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d. ! queue ! faac ! m.
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You can also activate what we call "scenarios" which will execute
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actions on the pipeline. Those actions can be for example, "set pipeline
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to pause", "seek to N with rate=x" etc, using the following syntax:
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gst-validate-1.0 playbin uri=file:///path/to/some/media/file --set-scenario=seek_forward
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You can list all available scenarios using:
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gst-validate-transcoding-1.0 --list-scenarios
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Scenarios are XML files describing a list of actions, you can find the
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source XML files in gst-validate/data/
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2- gst-validate-transcoding-1.0: Transcodes input-uri to output-uri,
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using the given encoding profile. The pipeline will be monitored for
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possible issues detection using the gst-validate lib, at the end of
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execution, a report containing informations about all found issues will
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be printed.
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Example:
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# Will transcode file://path/to/some/media/file to H264/AAC into mp4
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gst-validate-transcoding-1.0 -o 'video/quicktime,variant=iso:video/x-h264:audio/mpeg,mpegversion=4' \
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file://path/to/some/media/file file:///path/to/destination_h264_aac.qt
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The same scenarios can be activated on gst-validate-transcoding-1.0 as
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with gst-validate-1.0
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3- gst-validate-media-check-1.0: Analizes a media file and writes the
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results to stdout or a file. It can also compare the results found with
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another results file for identifying regressions. The monitoring lib
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from gst-validate will be enabled during the tests to identify issues
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with the GStreamer elements involved with the media file's container and
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codec types. It will actually do a serie of checks over the media file.
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Example:
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# Will check various media properties from the file
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gst-validate-media-check-1.0 file://path/to/some/media/file
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=== LD_PRELOAD / Testing with exiting application
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If you want to test an already existing application without modifying it. Just
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use:
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LD_PRELOAD=path/to/libgstvalidatepreload.so yourapp ...
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gst-validate will try to replace GstPipeline creating functions and configure
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monitors automatically for you, reports will be printed to stderr when
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they are found. You can also use GST_DEBUG to view the issues that were found
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NOTS: The exit code will be "18" in case a critical issue has
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been seen while running any of those tools.
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