aviplay
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION FEATURES OPTIONS NOTE SEE ALSO AUTHORS DATE
aviplay - QT-based movie player
aviplay
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.
.dll libraries.
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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)
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.
http://avifile.sourceforge.net for the original source and
main CVS archive for binary codecs.
avifile: Eugene Kuznetsov __
22 Jun 2001
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