DOT files

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 15:09 +0000, Ian Davidson wrote:

Hi,

> I have seen in the man pages for gst-launch that I can set an
> environment variable to get DOT files of a pipeline.  It looks as
> though these might be interesting.
> 
> 2 questions
> 
>      1. Are they only generated when running gst-launch or should they
>         work for any application?

They work for any application that uses the appropriate macros/function
calls in strategic places. gst-launch is one such application.

>      1. Having created some DOT files - how do I display them?

http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/DumpingPipelineGraphs

Please feel free to send a patch for the man page to improve the docs
there.

Cheers
 -Tim