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aviplay

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION FEATURES OPTIONS NOTE SEE ALSO AUTHORS DATE


NAME

aviplay - QT-based movie player

SYNOPSIS

aviplay

DESCRIPTION

aviplay is a QT-based player for various avi, asf, mpeg4 movie files.

Avifile is project whose main intent is to create library that allows programs to read and write compressed AVI files (Indeo Video, DivX :-), etc.) under x86 Linux. (De)compression is performed with various plugins (included Win32 DLLs) if native codec is not available. Win32 libraries have to be downloaded separately.

FEATURES

  • Supports many codecs by using freely available MS Windows

.dll libraries.

  • Supports streamed .asf files
  • Very fast - low CPU usage (even P200MMX user could at

least view the movie)

  • Audio resampling suppport
  • Modular design

OPTIONS

aviplay [--__rc__? [--__fullscreen__? [--__quality__ ''auto''? [[[--__size__ ''x y''?] [ ''avi-file''? [[[ ''subtitle-file''?]]

--rc Enables remote control (stdin|stdout).

--size

Start playing movie at dimensions X * Y.

--fullscreen

Start playing movie in fullscreen.

--quality [0,1,2,3,4,auto?

Start playing movie at given quality (only auto works for now!)

SHELL variables:

WIN32_PATH - can be used to override library path /usr/lib/win32 which holds MS Windows binary dll codecs.

AVIPLUGIN_PATH - can be used to override library path /usr/lib/avifile which holds avifile plugins.

AVIPLAY_MUTE_AUDIO - if set shows just video track

AVIPLAY_MUTE_VIDEO - if set plays just audio track

AVIPLAY_NOSYNC - do not synchronize audio and video track

HTTP_PROXY

WRITE_ASF - write asf file received over the network to file (/tmp/*.asf)

NOTE

Press the About button in aviplay's GUI for more details about the usage and configuation.

Aviplay automaticaly searches for subtitle file with the same name as the original

Note for Debian users: After the discussion with the autor I have came to the conclusion that GSM codec is legaly distributed under GPL terms since this piece of code was donated to the project by the original author which was using it in the non-GPL project xanim.

SEE ALSO

http://avifile.sourceforge.net for the original source and main CVS archive for binary codecs.

AUTHORS

avifile: Eugene Kuznetsov __

DATE

22 Jun 2001


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