.TH "GStreamer" "1" "April 2014" "" ""
.SH "NAME"
gst\-play\-1.0 \- Simple command line playback testing tool
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
\fBgst\-play\-1.0\fR \fIFILE|DIRECTORY|URI [FILE2|DIRECTORY2|URI2]\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.LP
\fIgst\-play\-1.0\fP is a command line tool that can be used to test
basic playback using the playbin element. You can pass it individual files,
URIs or whole directories (in which case it will recurse into sub-directories
as well).

.SH "OPTIONS"
.l
\fIgst\-play\-1.0\fP accepts the following options:
.TP 8
.B  \-\-help
Print help synopsis and available command line options
.TP 8
.B  \-\-version
Print version and exit
.TP 8
.B  \-\-audiosink=SOMESINK
Use the SOMESINK element as audio sink instead of autoaudiosink
.TP 8
.B  \-\-videosink=SOMESINK
Use the SOMESINK element as video sink instead of autovideosink
.TP 8
.B  \-\-volume=VOLUME
Set initial playback volume to VOLUME, where 0.0=silent and 1.0=unchanged
.TP 8
.B  \-\-shuffle
Shuffle playlist (play files in random order)
.TP 8
.B  \-\-no-interactive
Disable control through keyboard interaction in terminal (see below)
.TP 8
.B  \-\-gapless
Enable gapless playback
.TP 8
.B  \-v, \-\-flags
Control playback behaviour setting playbin 'flags' property
.TP 8
.B  \-v, \-\-verbose
Output status information and property notifications
.TP 8
.B  \-q, \-\-quiet
Do not print any output (apart from errors)
.TP 8
.B  \-\-use\-playbin3
Use playbin3 pipeline (default varies depending on 'USE_PLAYBIN' env variable)
.TP 8
.B  \-\-wait\-on\-eos
Keep showing the last frame on EOS until quit or playlist change command (gapless is ignored)

.SH "INTERACTIVE KEYBOARD CONTROL"
.l
.TP 8
.B  SPACE
Pause/Resume playback
.TP 8
.B  ARROW UP/DOWN
Volume up/down
.TP 8
.B  ARROW LEFT/RIGHT
Seek back/forward
.TP 8
.B  +/-
Increase/decrease playback rate
.TP 8
.B  d
Reverse playback direction
.TP 8
.B  t
Cycle through trick modes
.TP 8
.B  a
Switch audio track
.TP 8
.B  s
Switch subtitle track
.TP 8
.B  v
Switch video track
.TP 8
.B  > or n
Skip to next item in playlist
.TP 8
.B  < or b
Go back to previous item in playlist
.TP 8
.B  0
Seek back to beginning of current track
.TP 8
.B  Q, ESC
Quit

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR gst\-inspect\-1.0 (1),
.BR gst\-launch\-1.0 (1),
.BR gst\-discoverer\-1.0 (1),
.SH "AUTHOR"
The GStreamer team at http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/