/gstreamerLogsHighlighter

Vim syntax file enabling color highlighting for GStreamer logs

Primary LanguageVim scriptApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

GStreamer Logs Vim Highlighter

Vim syntax file which allows to add color highlighting when you watch GStreamer logs in vim (see picture below)

Installation

  1. Place gstreamer_highlight_syntax.vim file to your $HOME/.vim/syntax directory
  2. Put following line somewhere into your $HOME/.vimrc file:
   au BufNewfile,BufRead syslog*.log set filetype=gstreamer_highlight_syntax

Usage

  1. Run you gstreamer application and redirect logs into syslog (please notice 10 sec timeout in this command):
GST_DEBUG=*:2,filesink:5,ringbuffer:2,videotestsrc:5,videoconvert:5,queue:5,theoraenc:5,oggmux:5 timeout 10s gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! queue ! videoconvert ! theoraenc ! queue ! oggmux name=mux autoaudiosrc ! queue ! audioconvert ! vorbisenc ! queue ! mux. mux. !  queue ! filesink location=test.ogg 2> >(logger -t gst-launch)
  1. Filter syslog logs from your application (in our case gst-launch) and save into separate file which name starts with 'syslog' (notice 'syslog'-based pattern Installation section):
grep gst-launch /var/log/syslog > /tmp/syslog
  1. Open created file in vim - you should see colorful GStreamer logs if your file name starts with 'syslog'

Example logs highlighting

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