1XINE(5) File Formats Manual XINE(5)
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6 xine - a free video player
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9 MRLs are similar to URLs in your web browser. They describe the media
10 to read from. Valid MRLs may be plain file names or one of the follow‐
11 ing (see also the notes below):
12 · Filesystem:
14 file:<path>
15 fifo:<path>
16 stdin:/
17 · CD and DVD:
19 dvd:/[device_name][/title[.part]]
20 dvd:/DVD_image_file[/title[.part]]
21 dvd:/DVD_directory[/title[.part]]
22 (use the path of the directory which contains VIDEO_TS)
23 vcd://[CD_image_or_device_name][@[letter]number]
24 vcdo://track_number
25 cdda:/[device][/track_number]
26 · Video devices:
28 v4l://[tuner_device/frequency]
29 v4l2://tuner_device
30 dvb://channel_number
31 (nth channel in your channels.conf)
32 dvb://channel_name
33 dvbc://channel_name:tuning_parameters
34 dvbs://channel_name:tuning_parameters
35 dvbt://channel_name:tuning_parameters
36 dvba://channel_name:tuning_parameters
37 pvr:/tmp_files_path!saved_files_path!max_page_age
38 (for WinTV PVR 250 and 350)
39 · Network:
41 http://host...
42 tcp://host[:port]
43 udp://host[:port[?iface=interface]]
44 rtp://host[:port[?iface=interface]]
45 (default port for tcp, udp and rtp is 7658)
46 smb://...
47 mms://host...
48 pnm://host...
49 rtsp://host... (requires Real codecs)
50 Additional input plugins will provide additional MRL types. The ones
52 listed above are available with stock libxine.
53 NOTE: where a file name is required, the full path must be provided -
55 from a shell, you can normally use "$PWD/file" or "$(pwd)/file" or
56 "`pwd`/file" if the file is in the current directory. (Which one
57 depends on your shell; all three work in bash. Also, normal URL encod‐
58 ing rules apply; `%', in particular, must be encoded as `%25'.)
59 As of xine-lib 1.1.3, the DVD title number may be 0 (select navigation)
61 and the chapter number may be 0 (full title).
62 VCD MRL Syntax
65 A simple vcd:/ runs the default item (e.g. perhaps track 1 or entry 0)
66 using the default VCD device (perhaps /dev/cdrom). Both the default
67 item and default device are user-configurable.
68 It is however also possible to specify both Video CD device/filename
70 and item explicitly in the MRL.
71 For example vcd:/dev/dvd specifies the default entry using device
73 /dev/dvd which might useful if this is your DVD which is different than
74 your CD-ROM device and your DVD drive can play CD's. And
75 vcd://test_svcd_ntsc.cue specifies the cue file for CD image on disk.
76 (test_svcd_ntsc.bin is the corresponding bin file, but using that won't
77 work.)
78 After the optional device name or file name, you can name the kind of
80 unit, preceded by a colon. An MRL which ends in a colon is like not
81 adding it at all: the default entry type and number is used. Items come
82 in 4 flavours: "Track", "Entry", "Playback" and "Segment". These units
83 are indicated with the capital first letter of each type: T, E, P, S,
84 s. An uppercase S in the MRL display indicates a NTSC segment while a
85 lowercase s indicates a PAL segment. However, when you enter an MRL,
86 the case of these letters is insignificant.
87 Depending on the Video CD, you might not have any playable segments
89 (S,s) or playback control (P). If you give a MRL that refers to a
90 playback control entry but there is no playback control, your playback
91 number will silently be converted into the corresponding entry number.
92 You can configure various things that affect MRLs are selected when
94 there is some ambiguity in the MRL name. media.vcd.autoplay sets what
95 kind of unit to to use in a MRL is none is given. Another configura‐
96 tion setting, vcd.device, determines what device to use if that part is
97 not given. When you hit the VCD button, that is equivalent to entering
98 vcd:/ and thus these two configuration settings are used to expand the
99 MRL.
100 Some examples of MRLs are given below. In the examples, we assume the
102 following configuration settings:
103 vcd:// Play (navigate) default item (in this case Entry ID 0) from the
106 default device (in this case set to /dev/cdrom)
107 vcd://@
109 Same as above
110 vcd:///dev/cdrom@
112 Same effect as above since the default device is set to
113 /dev/cdrom.
114 vcd:///dev/cdrom@E0
116 Same as above. But note that this is because we have auto‐
117 play:entry which is no longer the default value.
118 vcd:///dev/cdrom2@
120 Play (navigate) the default item of /dev/cdrom2
121 vcd:///dev/cdrom2
123 should be same as above but is currently broken?
124 vcd:///dev/cdrom2@T1
126 Play Track 1 from /dev/cdrom2
127 vcd:///dev/cdrom@S1
129 Play segment 1 from /dev/cdrom. This assumes that there *is* a
130 segment 1. Check the MRL list to see if that is the case.
131 vcd://@P1
133 Play playlist item 1 from default device. If there is no play‐
134 back control, the MRL will be converted into vcd:/@E0. Again
135 check the MRL list to see if there is a P1.
136 vcd://@P1*
138 Probably same as above.
139 vcd:///dev/cdrom@E1
141 Play Entry id 1 from default device.
142 vcd://@S0
144 Play segment 0 from default device.
145 vcd://@3
147 Play track 3 from default device.
148 vcd:///dev/cdrom2:1
150 Play track 1 from /dev/cdrom2.
151 vcd:///tmp/ntsc.cue@
153 Play default item (E0) of /tmp/ntsc.bin. Note trailing @.
154 vcd://ntsc.cue/@E0
156 Play entry 0 of ntsc.bin.
157 vcd:///tmp/ntsc.nrg/@E0
159 Play entry 0 of /tmp/ntsc.nrg (Nero file). Works for some simple
160 Nero images.
161 DVB
163 DVB MRLs require that ~/.xine/channels.conf exists and contains valid
164 data. This can be obtained by generating a tuning file using the Lin‐
165 uxTV DVB apps utility "scan" (or "dvbscan" if you're using a version
166 newer than 1.1.0):
167 scan -o zap /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-PontopPike
169 >~/.config/xine-lib/channels.conf
170 (This example is for the writer's local transmitter, using a file from
172 the Debian dvb-utils package.)
173 For the dvbc, dvbs and dvbt MRLs, tuning parameters are expected, tak‐
175 ing one of the following forms:
176 DVB-S <frequency>:<polarisation>:<sat-no>:<sym-
178 rate>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>
179 DVB-C <frequency>:<inversion>:<sym-
181 rate>:<fec>:<qam>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>
182 DVB-T <frequency>:<inversion>:<bw>:<fec-hp>:<fec-lp>:<qam>:<transmis‐
184 sion-mode>:<guardlist>:<hierarchy-info>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-
185 id>
186 DVB-A <frequency>:<qam>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>
188 The individual parameters are:
190 frequency number, usually in kHz
192 polarisation `v' or `h'
194 sat-no unsigned long, usually 0
196 sym-rate symbol rate in MSyms/sec
198 inversion INVERSION_ON, INVERSION_OFF, INVERSION_AUTO
200 fec, fec-hp, fec-lp FEC_1_2, FEC_2_3, FEC_3_4 ... FEC_8_9, FEC_AUTO,
202 FEC_NONE
203 qam QPSK, QAM_128, QAM_16 ...
205 bw BANDWIDTH_6_MHZ, BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ, BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ
207 transmission-mode TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K, TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K
209 guardlist GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4, GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8,
211 GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16, GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32,
212 hierarchy-info HIERARCHY_1, HIERARCHY_2, HIERARCHY_4, HIERAR‐
214 CHY_NONE
215 vpid video program ID
217 apid audio program ID
219 service-id service ID (needed for now/next information etc.)
221 The following keyboard & mouse inputs may be accepted:
223 Menu 2 Start/stop recording
225 Menu 3 Toggle zoom
227 Menu 7 Toggle now/next display
229 Previous/Next Chapter Previous/next channel
231 Mouse wheel & button 1 Scroll through channel list & select the high‐
233 lighted channel
234
236 external subtitle files (any mrl)
237 Text subtitle files may be appended to the MRL:.
238 <mrl>#subtitle:<subtitlefile>
240 This is the normal way to define the subtitle file to use. The
241 frontend will not take any notice of the subtitle file. For
242 example:
243 file://home/user/wibble.mpg#subtitle:/home/user/wibble.sub
244 (Note that some front ends can detect subtitles files where the
245 name differs as shown in the example.)
246
248 After a delimiting # you can add several stream parameters:
249 novideo
251 Video will be ignored.
252 noaudio
254 Audio will be ignored.
255 nospu Subpictures will be ignored.
257 demux:<demux name>
259 Specify the demux plugin to use.
260 volume:<level>
262 Set audio volume.
263 compression:<level>
265 Set audio dynamic range compression.
266 <config entry>:<config value>
268 Assign a new value to any config entry.
269 save:<file>
271 Save the stream (if allowed) to the named file, relative to the
272 directory given by the option "media.capture.save_dir".
273 change configuration option 'on the fly':
275 You can change a configuration option at any time, using the
276 special cfg:/ MRL style. The syntax is:
277 cfg:/<config entry> : <config value>
278 Unlike stream config option, you can change anything before
279 playing the stream.
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283 xine(1), aaxine(1), gxine(1), toxine(1), totem(1), kaffeine(1) ...
284 The programs are documented fully on the xine home page:
286 http://www.xine-project.org/ ⟨http://www.xine-project.org/⟩
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289 This text was extracted from the xine man page by Darren Salt
290 <dsalt@users.sourceforge.net>. The xine man page was written by Siggi
291 Langauf <siggi@debian.org> for the xine project. Lots of additions by
292 Guenter Bartsch <guenter@users.sourceforge.net>, Daniel Caujolle-Bert
293 <f1rmb@users.sourceforge.net>, Rocky Bernstein <rocky@panix.com>, and
294 Philipp Hahn <pmhahn@users.sourceforge.net>.
295The xine project 2005-06-15 XINE(5)