[967a388] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY gstreamer-download-http "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gstreamer/0.8/gstreamer-&gstreamer-version;.tar.bz2">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY gstreamer-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gstreamer/0.8/gstreamer-&gstreamer-version;.tar.bz2">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY gstreamer-md5sum "6cbfa914cd577d2623bf7e16cf1f6510">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY gstreamer-size "1.4 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY gstreamer-buildsize "74 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY gstreamer-time "2.30 SBU">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="gstreamer" xreflabel="GStreamer-&gstreamer-version;">
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| 16 | <sect1info>
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| 17 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 18 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 19 | </sect1info>
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| 20 | <?dbhtml filename="gstreamer.html"?>
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| 21 | <title>GStreamer-&gstreamer-version;</title>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <sect2>
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| 24 | <title>Introduction to <application>GStreamer</application></title>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>The <application>GStreamer</application> package contains a streaming
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| 27 | media framework that enables applications to share a common set of plugins for
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| 28 | things like video decoding and encoding, audio encoding and decoding, audio
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| 29 | and video filters, audio visualisation, Web streaming and anything else that
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| 30 | streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research software
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| 31 | worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute.</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 34 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 35 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 36 | url="&gstreamer-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 37 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 38 | url="&gstreamer-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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[dc2f5ad] | 39 | <listitem><para>Download MD5 sum: &gstreamer-md5sum;</para></listitem>
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[967a388] | 40 | <listitem><para>Download size: &gstreamer-size;</para></listitem>
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| 41 | <listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
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| 42 | &gstreamer-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 43 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 44 | &gstreamer-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 45 | </sect3>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <sect3><title><application>GStreamer</application> dependencies</title>
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| 48 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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[7c461b3] | 49 | <para><xref linkend="glib2"/>,
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[967a388] | 50 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
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| 51 | <xref linkend="popt"/></para>
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| 52 | </sect4>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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| 55 | <para><xref linkend="libgnomeui"/>,
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[775c349a] | 56 | <xref linkend="python"/> and
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[967a388] | 57 | <ulink url="http://valgrind.kde.org/">Valgrind</ulink></para>
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| 58 | </sect4>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | <sect4><title>Optional (to build documentation)</title>
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| 61 | <para><xref linkend="libxslt"/>,
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| 62 | <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>,
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[03d51788] | 63 | <xref linkend="tex"/>,
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[967a388] | 64 | <xref linkend="gs"/> or
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| 65 | <xref linkend="espgs"/>,
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| 66 | <xref linkend="docbook-utils"/>,
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| 67 | <ulink url="http://www.xfig.org/">Transfig</ulink> and
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| 68 | <ulink url="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/">Netpbm</ulink></para>
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| 69 | </sect4>
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| 70 | </sect3>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | </sect2>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <sect2>
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| 75 | <title>Installation of <application>GStreamer</application></title>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <para>Install <application>GStreamer</application> by running the following
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| 78 | commands:</para>
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| 79 |
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| 80 | <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
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| 81 | --localstatedir=/var --disable-docs-build &&
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| 82 | make &&
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| 83 | make install &&
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[726be18] | 84 | chown -R root:root /usr/share/doc/gstreamer-&gstreamer-version; &&
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[967a388] | 85 | gst-register</command></userinput></screen>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | </sect2>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <sect2>
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| 90 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 91 |
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| 92 | <para><parameter>--localstatedir=/var</parameter>: This switch puts
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| 93 | <command>gst-register</command>'s cache in
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| 94 | <filename class="directory">/var/cache/gstreamer-0.8</filename>
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| 95 | instead of
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| 96 | <filename class="directory">/usr/cache/gstreamer-0.8</filename>.</para>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <para><parameter>--sysconfdir=/etc</parameter>: This switch puts configuration
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| 99 | files in <filename class="directory">/etc</filename>
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| 100 | instead of <filename class="directory">/usr/etc</filename>.</para>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <para><option>--disable-docs-build</option>: This switch prevents
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| 103 | the rebuilding of documentation during the <command>make</command>
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| 104 | command.</para>
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| 105 |
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[726be18] | 106 | <para><command>chown -R root:root ...</command>: The documentation is
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| 107 | installed with ownerships of the user who untarred and built the package.
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| 108 | This command changes the ownerships of the installed documentation files to
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| 109 | root:root.</para>
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| 110 |
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[967a388] | 111 | </sect2>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <sect2>
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| 114 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <para>The <application>GStreamer</application> package contains
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| 117 | <command>gst-complete</command>,
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| 118 | <command>gst-compprep</command>,
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| 119 | <command>gst-feedback</command>,
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| 120 | <command>gst-inspect</command>,
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| 121 | <command>gst-launch</command>,
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| 122 | <command>gst-md5sum</command>,
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| 123 | <command>gst-register</command>,
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| 124 | <command>gst-typefind</command>,
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| 125 | <command>gst-xmlinspect</command>,
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| 126 | <command>gst-xmllaunch</command>,
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| 127 | the <filename class="libraryfile">libgstreamer</filename>,
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| 128 | <filename class='libraryfile'>libgstcontrol</filename> and
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| 129 | <filename class="libraryfile">libgst</filename> libraries.</para>
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| 130 |
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| 131 | </sect2>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <sect2>
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| 134 | <title>Description</title>
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| 135 |
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| 136 | <sect3><title>gst-complete</title>
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| 137 | <para><command>gst-complete</command> is a utility enabling
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| 138 | <command>bash</command> to provide context sensitive tab completion for
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| 139 | <command>gst-launch</command> command lines.</para>
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| 140 | </sect3>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <sect3><title>gst-compprep</title>
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| 143 | <para><command>gst-compprep</command> builds a registry of
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| 144 | <application>GStreamer</application> elements and their features that is used
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| 145 | by <command>gst-complete</command>.</para>
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| 146 | </sect3>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <sect3><title>gst-feedback</title>
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| 149 | <para><command>gst-feedback</command> generates debug info for
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| 150 | <application>GStreamer</application> bug reports.</para>
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| 151 | </sect3>
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| 152 |
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| 153 | <sect3><title>gst-inspect</title>
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| 154 | <para><command>gst-inspect</command> prints information about a
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| 155 | <application>GStreamer</application> plugin or element.</para>
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| 156 | </sect3>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | <sect3><title>gst-launch</title>
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| 159 | <para><command>gst-launch</command> is a tool that builds and runs basic
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| 160 | <application>GStreamer</application> pipelines.</para>
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| 161 | </sect3>
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| 162 |
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| 163 | <sect3><title>gst-md5sum</title>
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| 164 | <para><command>gst-md5sum</command> generates MD5 checksums of the data
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| 165 | generated by a <application>GStreamer</application> pipeline.</para>
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| 166 | </sect3>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <sect3><title>gst-register</title>
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| 169 | <para><command>gst-register</command> is used to register all the
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| 170 | <application>GStreamer</application> plugins on the system. It creates a
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| 171 | listing of their properties so that when a
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| 172 | <application>GStreamer</application> based application is started, it does not
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| 173 | need to load plugins until it needs them.</para>
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| 174 | </sect3>
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| 175 |
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| 176 | <sect3><title>gst-typefind</title>
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| 177 | <para><command>gst-typefind</command> uses the
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| 178 | <application>GStreamer</application> type finding system to determine the
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| 179 | relevant <application>GStreamer</application> plugin to parse or decode a file,
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| 180 | and determine the corresponding MIME type.</para>
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| 181 | </sect3>
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| 182 |
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| 183 | <sect3><title>gst-xmlinspect</title>
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| 184 | <para><command>gst-xmlinspect</command> prints information about a
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| 185 | <application>GStreamer</application> plugin or element in
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| 186 | <acronym>XML</acronym> document format.</para>
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| 187 | </sect3>
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| 188 |
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| 189 | <sect3><title>gst-xmllaunch</title>
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| 190 | <para><command>gst-xmllaunch</command> is used to build and run a basic
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| 191 | <application>GStreamer</application> pipeline, loading it from an
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| 192 | <acronym>XML</acronym> description.</para>
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| 193 | </sect3>
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| 194 |
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| 195 | </sect2>
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| 196 |
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| 197 | </sect1>
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| 198 |
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