GStreamer Instruments is a set of performance analyzing tools for time profiling of GStreamer pipelines and data flow inspection.
Utiity inspired by top and perf-top, displays performance report for the particular command, analyzing GStreamer ABI calls.
$ gst-top-1.0 gst-launch-1.0 audiotestsrc num-buffers=1000 ! vorbisenc ! vorbisdec ! fakesink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Redistribute latency...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstSystemClock
Got EOS from element "pipeline0".
Execution ended after 0:00:00.225688000
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...
ELEMENT %CPU %TIME TIME
vorbisenc0 73.8 74.3 172 ms
vorbisdec0 13.5 13.6 31.4 ms
audiotestsrc0 8.1 8.2 18.9 ms
fakesink0 4.0 4.0 9.21 ms
pipeline0 0.0 0.0 0 ns
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Intercepts GStreamer ABI calls and records communication between the App and GStreamer into the trace file.
$ DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES=/usr/local/lib/libgstintercept.dylib \
DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE= \
GST_DEBUG_DUMP_TRACE_DIR=. \
gst-play-1.0 ~/Music/Snowman.mp3 --audiosink=fakesink
Press 'k' to see a list of keyboard shortcuts.
Now playing /Users/cyril/Music/Snowman.mp3
0:04:29.5 / 0:04:29.5
Reached end of play list.
$ ls *.gsttrace
playbin.gsttrace
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Generates performance report for input trace file.
$ gst-report-1.0 playbin.gsttrace
ELEMENT %CPU %TIME TIME
mad0 33.4 26.5 806 ms
source 10.5 8.3 253 ms
aconv 9.8 7.8 237 ms
streamsynchronizer0 8.4 6.6 202 ms
mpegaudioparse0 8.2 6.5 197 ms
typefind 7.1 5.7 172 ms
inputselector0 7.1 5.6 171 ms
id3demux0 7.0 5.5 168 ms
volume 6.9 5.5 166 ms
resample 6.7 5.3 161 ms
playsink 5.9 4.7 142 ms
aqueue 5.6 4.5 136 ms
fakesink0 5.3 4.2 127 ms
abin 4.2 3.4 102 ms
uridecodebin0 0.0 0.0 161 us
conv 0.0 0.0 20.0 us
audiotee 0.0 0.0 0 ns
identity 0.0 0.0 0 ns
decodebin0 0.0 0.0 0 ns
playbin 0.0 0.0 0 ns
$
You can generate performance graph in DOT language:
gst-report-1.0 --dot playbin.gsttrace | dot -Tsvg > perf.svg