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1 perry 1 aviplay
2 !!!aviplay
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 FEATURES
7 OPTIONS
8 NOTE
9 SEE ALSO
10 AUTHORS
11 DATE
12 ----
13 !!NAME
14
15
16 aviplay - QT-based movie player
17 !!SYNOPSIS
18
19
20 __aviplay__
21 !!DESCRIPTION
22
23
24 __aviplay__ is a QT-based player for various avi, asf,
25 mpeg4 movie files.
26
27
28 Avifile is project whose main intent is to create library
29 that allows programs to read and write compressed AVI files
30 (Indeo Video, DivX :-), etc.) under x86 Linux.
31 (De)compression is performed with various plugins (included
32 Win32 DLLs) if native codec is not available. Win32
33 libraries have to be downloaded separately.
34 !!FEATURES
35
36
37 * Supports many codecs by using freely available MS Windows
38 .dll libraries.
39
40
41 * Supports streamed .asf files
42
43
44 * Very fast - low CPU usage (even P200MMX user could at
45 least view the movie)
46
47
48 * Audio resampling suppport
49
50
51 * Modular design
52 !!OPTIONS
53
54
55 __aviplay__ [[--__rc__] [[--__fullscreen__]
56 [[--__quality__ ''auto''] [[[[--__size__ ''x y'']]
57 [[ ''avi-file''] [[[[ ''subtitle-file'']]]
58
59
60 __--rc__ Enables remote control
61 (stdin|stdout).
62
63
64 __--size__
65
66
67 Start playing movie at dimensions X * Y.
68
69
70 __--fullscreen__
71
72
73 Start playing movie in fullscreen.
74
75
76 __--quality [[0,1,2,3,4,auto]__
77
78
79 Start playing movie at given quality (only auto works for
80 now!)
81
82
83 SHELL variables:
84
85
86 __WIN32_PATH__ - can be used to override library path
87 /usr/lib/win32 which holds MS Windows binary dll
88 codecs.
89
90
91 __AVIPLUGIN_PATH__ - can be used to override library path
92 /usr/lib/avifile which holds avifile plugins.
93
94
95 __AVIPLAY_MUTE_AUDIO__ - if set shows just video
96 track
97
98
99 __AVIPLAY_MUTE_VIDEO__ - if set plays just audio
100 track
101
102
103 __AVIPLAY_NOSYNC__ - do not synchronize audio and video
104 track
105
106
107 __HTTP_PROXY__
108
109
110 __WRITE_ASF__ - write asf file received over the network
111 to file (/tmp/*.asf)
112 !!NOTE
113
114
115 Press the About button in aviplay's GUI for more details
116 about the usage and configuation.
117
118
119 Aviplay automaticaly searches for subtitle file with the
120 same name as the original
121
122
123 Note for Debian users: After the discussion with the autor I
124 have came to the conclusion that GSM codec is legaly
125 distributed under GPL terms since this piece of code was
126 donated to the project by the original author which was
127 using it in the non-GPL project xanim.
128 !!SEE ALSO
129
130
131 http://avifile.sourceforge.net for the original source and
132 main CVS archive for binary codecs.
133 !!AUTHORS
134
135
136 __avifile:__ Eugene Kuznetsov
137 __
138 !!DATE
139
140
141 22 Jun 2001
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