diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index fcf0f47f14c5..61ba8418a62a 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Using GStreamer plugin
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 To use GStreamer plugin from source tree, set the following environment so that
-GStreamer can find it.
+GStreamer can find it, (This can be skipped when libcamera is installed)
 
   export GST_PLUGIN_PATH=$(pwd)/build/src/gstreamer
 
@@ -104,7 +104,22 @@ onto the default video display element on your system.
 
 .. code::
 
-  gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc camera-name="Camera 1" ! videoconvert ! autovideosink
+  gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc camera-name="Camera 1" ! glimagesink
+
+To show the first camera found you can omit the camera-name property, or you
+can identify the camera and capabilities using:
+
+.. code::
+
+  gst-device-monitor-1.0 Video
+
+This will show the supported stream sizes which can be manually selected if
+desired with a pipeline such as:
+
+.. code::
+
+  gst-launch-1.0 libcamerasrc ! 'video/x-raw,width=1280,height=720' ! \
+        glimagesink
 
 .. section-end-getting-started