1pia(1)                      General Commands Manual                     pia(1)
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NAME

6       pia - play media files
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SYNOPSIS

9       pia [ options ] movie
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DESCRIPTION

12       pia is a small X11 tool which plays movie files.
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OPTIONS

15       pia understands the usual toolkit options (-geometry + friends).  Addi‐
16       tional options are:
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18       -h     display help text
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20       -v     be verbose.
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22       -debug enable debug messages.
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24       -dsp <dev>
25              Use OSS device <dev> for sound.
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27       -noxv  Disable Xvideo extension.
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29       -nogl  Disable OpenGL.
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31       -noaudio
32              Don't play sound.
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34       -novideo
35              Don't play video.
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37       -slow n
38              Slowdown video playback by factor n.  n=2 doubles playback time,
39              ...  This also turns off audio playback.
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SUPPORTED MOVIE FORMATS

42       Main  purpose  of  this  utility is to playback movie files recorded by
43       xawtv, motv and streamer.  It should be able to playback every  AVI  or
44       QuickTime  movie  written by one of the mentioned utilities.  Feel free
45       to submit a bug report if this doesn't work for some file.
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47   QuickTime
48       pia uses libquicktime to decode quicktime movies,  thus  it  should  be
49       able  to  decode  and  playback  all  movies  with  codecs supported by
50       libquicktime.
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52   AVI
53       AVI support is very limited.  Video: uncompressed RGB data (15  and  24
54       bpp) and mjpeg is supported.  Audio: only uncompressed PCM data works.
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56   WAV
57       WAV  files  are  playable too, with the same limitation like AVI audio:
58       only uncompressed PCM data.
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AUTHOR

61       Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
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64       2002 Gerd Knorr
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66       Copyright (C) 2002 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
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68       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
69       under  the  terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
70       Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at  your
71       option) any later version.
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73       This  program  is  distributed  in the hope that it will be useful, but
74       WITHOUT ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied  warranty  of  MER‐
75       CHANTABILITY  or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General
76       Public License for more details.
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78       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
79       with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
80       675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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84                              (c) 2002 Gerd Knorr                       pia(1)
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