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Revision as of 17:20, 28 July 2015
Introduction
This page will allow you to create a useful diagram of your pipeline, as described in http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Basic+tutorial+11%3A+Debugging+tools.
Steps
1. Install dot:
sudo apt-get install graphviz
The "dot" command is available in the "graphviz" package.
2. In the target, run:
# export GST_DEBUG_DUMP_DOT_DIR=/tmp/
This will place the .dot generated files in your /tmp/ directory, you can change that directory if you need to.
3. Run your pipeline, for example:
# gst-launch audiotestsrc num-buffers=1000 ! fakesink sync=false
After the pipeline is over, you can see the .dot generated files, and the "*PLAYING_PAUSED*" one is typically used to generate the diagram.
# ls /tmp 0.00.00.972540004-gst-launch.NULL_READY.dot 0.00.01.051387461-gst-launch.READY_PAUSED.dot 0.00.01.074729712-gst-launch.PAUSED_PLAYING.dot 0.00.12.187852589-gst-launch.PLAYING_PAUSED.dot 0.00.12.201485839-gst-launch.PAUSED_READY.dot psplash_fifo
4. In your host machine, generate the diagram from the dot file
This step implies you know how to transfer the .dot file from your target to your host machine. Once you've done that, you can generate the .png image using the "dot" command in your host:
$ dot -Tpng 0.00.24.846778049-gst-launch.PLAYING_PAUSED.dot > pipeline.png
5. Open up your image
Once the image has been created, you can open it with your favorite image viewer, for example:
$ eog pipeline.png
Helper Script
Sometimes you can get a lot of different DOT files generated. If you want to convert each one of them to PNG pictures, you can use this script. Specify the folder where your DOT files are (DOT_FILES_DIR), and the folder where you want to place the generated PNG files (PNG_FILES_DIR).
DOT_FILES_DIR="fs/fs/graphs" PNG_FILES_DIR="fs/fs/graphs" DOT_FILES=`ls $DOT_FILES_DIR | grep dot` for dot_file in $DOT_FILES do png_file=`echo $dot_file | sed s/.dot/.png/` dot -Tpng $DOT_FILES_DIR/$dot_file > $PNG_FILES_DIR/$png_file done
Generate from a gstreamer application
Add this to your app after all the elements are created and linked.
GST_DEBUG_BIN_TO_DOT_FILE(pipeline, GST_DEBUG_GRAPH_SHOW_ALL, "pipeline")
and run the app like:
# GST_DEBUG_DUMP_DOT_DIR=. ./application
See Also
References
Gstreamer Debugging Tools Tutorial. Section "Getting pipeline graphs".