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GStreamer has an extensive set of debugging tools for plugin developers.
Applications using the GStreamer libraries accept the following set of command line argruments to enable the debugging system.
--gst-debug-mask=mask Sets the mask for the debugging output.
--gst-info-mask=mask Sets the mask for the info output.
--gst-plugin-spew Enable printout of errors while loading GST plugins.
--gst-plugin-path=PATH Add a directory to the plugin search path.
--help Print the a short desciption of the options and an overview of the current debugging/info masks set.
The follwing table gives an overview of the mask values and their meaning. (enabled) means that the corresponding flag has been set.
Mask (to be OR'ed) info/debug FLAGS
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0x00000001 (enabled)/ GST_INIT
0x00000002 / COTHREADS
0x00000004 / COTHREAD_SWITCH
0x00000008 / AUTOPLUG
0x00000010 / AUTOPLUG_ATTEMPT
0x00000020 / PARENTAGE
0x00000040 / STATES
0x00000080 / PLANING
0x00000100 / SCHEDULING
0x00000200 / OPERATION
0x00000400 / BUFFER
0x00000800 / CAPS
0x00001000 / CLOCK
0x00002000 / ELEMENT_PADS
0x00004000 / ELEMENTFACTORY
0x00008000 / PADS
0x00010000 / PIPELINE
0x00020000 / PLUGIN_LOADING
0x00040000 / PLUGIN_ERRORS
0x00080000 / PROPERTIES
0x00100000 / THREAD
0x00200000 / TYPES
0x00400000 / XML
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