[gst-devel] Checking m4a tags from the command line

Sumanth V sumanth.v at allaboutif.com
Fri May 29 12:02:36 CEST 2009


Hi,

   Try using -m command line option. This prints the message passing on the
bus.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker at bennee.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My Banshee setup is crashing on certain files and I think it may be
> tag related. To rule out GStreamer itself
> I was wondering if it's possible to dump the tags gstreamer sees from
> the command line. I've got the hang
> of playing a tune:
>
> gst-launch-0.10 playbin uri="file:///home/alex/music/Artists/James/Hey
> Ma (Deluxe Edition)/03 - Waterfall.m4a"
>
> But I'm not sure how to construct a tag reading pipeline. Having read
> the manual I can see there are a bunch
> of tag sources:
>
> 10:36 alex at danny/x86_64 [gst-editor.git] >gst-inspect-0.10  | grep "tag"
> typefindfunctions: application/x-apetag: ape, mpc, wv
> vorbis:  vorbistag: VorbisTag
> flac:  flactag: FLAC tagger
> mad:  id3mux: id3 tag muxer
> taglib:  apev2mux: TagLib-based APEv2 Muxer
> taglib:  id3v2mux: TagLib-based ID3v2 Muxer
> debug:  taginject: TagInject
> apetag:  apedemux: APE tag demuxer
> icydemux:  icydemux: ICY tag demuxer
> id3demux:  id3demux: ID3 tag demuxer
>
> But how do I actually use these in a pipeline?
>
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