xawtv(1) xawtv(1)

NAME

xawtv - a X11 program for watching TV

SYNOPSIS

xawtv options? station name?

DESCRIPTION

xawtv is a simple program for watching TV with your linux box. It uses the Athena widgets. xawtv supports the bttv driver, v4l (video4linux, included in 2.2.x) and the Xvideo exten­ tion.

xawtv reads the config files /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xawtvrc and $HOME/.xawtv at startup. Set­ tings in the personal config file will overwrite the options from the global config file. These files holds the available TV stations and a few settings like TV norm. You have to create the config file yourself, see below for details.

OPTIONS

• h, -help

  Print a short desctiption of all command line options.

• f, -fullscreen

  startup in fullscreen mode.

• n, -noconf

  don't read the config file ($HOME/.xawtv).

• o, -outfile base

  set basestring for the snapshot output files. The filename will be "base-timestamp- nr.ext".

• c, -device device

  set video4linux device (default is /dev/video).

• c, -xvport number

  set Xvideo port (defaults to the first usable).

• v, -debug level

  Be verbose, level may be 0 (default), 1 or 2. It exists just for debugging and trou­ ble-shooting.

• remote

  X11 display is remote. This basically disables overlay mode, you might need this if xawtv failes to autodetect a remote X11 display.

• b, -bpp n

  force xawtv into n bpp color depth. Works for switching between 15/16 and 24/32 bpp. This gets just passed throuth to v4l-conf(1)?.

• shift n

  Shift the video display by n bytes. Try this if your video display is'nt within the xawtv window. This gets passed throuth to v4l-conf(1)? too.

• fb Use the framebuffer device to determine the video framebuffer address (instead of the

  DGA extention). Yet another pass throuth argument.

• xv/-noxv

  enable/disable the usage of the Xvideo extention (for overlay), default is on.

• scale/-noscale

  enable/disable the usage of the Xvideo extention (for hardware scaling in grabdisplay mode), default is on.