.TH "GStreamer" "1" "March 2001"
.SH "NAME"
gst\-xmllaunch \- build and run a GStreamer pipeline from an XML serialization
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fBgst\-xmllaunch\fR \fI[OPTION...]\fR XML\-FILE [ ELEMENT.PROPERTY=VALUE ... ]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.LP 
\fIgst\-xmllaunch\fP is a tool that is used to build and run a basic
\fIGStreamer\fP pipeline, loading it from an XML description. You can
produce the XML description using gst-launch(1) with the -o option or by
calling gst_xml_write_file() in your own app.

A simple commandline looks like:

 gst\-xmllaunch my\-pipeline.xml filesrc0.location=music.mp3

This sets the location property of the element named filesrc0 to the value
"music.mp3". See gst\-launch(1) for syntax on setting element names, and
gst\-inspect to see what properties various elements have.

You can pass "-" as the XML\-FILE to read from stdin.

XML\-FILE can be a URI as well, thanks to the wizardry of libxml. I'm not really
sure what all is supported, it seems http works just fine though.

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.SH "WARNING"
\fIgst\-xmllaunch\fP is deprecated and broken for all but the most simple
pipelines. It will most likely be removed in future. Don't use it.
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.SH "OPTIONS"
.l
\fIgst\-xmllaunch\fP accepts the following options:
.TP 8
.B  \-\-help
Print help synopsis and available FLAGS
.TP 8
.B  \-\-silent
Do not output status information
.TP 8
.B  \-\-exclude=TYPE, \-XTYPE
Do not output status information of TYPE
.TP 8
.B  \-\-output=FILE, \-oFILE
Save XML representation of pipeline to FILE and exit
.TP 8
.B  \-\-gst\-info\-mask=FLAGS
\fIGStreamer\fP info flags to set (list with \-\-help)
.TP 8
.B  \-\-gst\-debug\-mask=FLAGS
\fIGStreamer\fP debugging flags to set (list with \-\-help)
.TP 8
.B  \-\-gst\-mask=FLAGS
\fIGStreamer\fP info and debugging flags to set (list with \-\-help)
.TP 8
.B  \-\-gst\-plugin\-spew
\fIGStreamer\fP info flags to set
Enable printout of errors while loading \fIGStreamer\fP plugins
.TP 8
.B  \-\-gst\-plugin\-path=PATH
Add directories separated with ':' to the plugin search path
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR gst\-feedback (1),
.BR gst\-inspect (1),
.BR gst\-launch (1),
.BR gst\-typefind (1)
.SH "AUTHOR"
The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/