pia(1)pia(1)NAMEpia - play media files
SYNOPSISpia [ options ] files
DESCRIPTIONpia is a small X11 tool which playes movie files.
OPTIONSpia understands the usual toolkit options (-geometry + friends). Addi‐
tional options are:
-h display help text
-v be verbose.
-debug enable debug messages.
-dsp <dev>
Use audio device <dev> for sound.
-noxv Disable Xvideo extension.
-nogl Disable OpenGL.
-noaudio
Don't play sound.
-novideo
Don't play video.
-slow n
Slowdown video playback by factor n. n=2 doubles playback time,
... This also turns off audio playback.
SUPPORTED MOVIE FORMATS
Main purpose of this utility is to playback movie files recorded by
xawtv, motv and streamer. It should be able to playback every AVI or
QuickTime movie written by one of the mentioned utilites. Feel free to
submit a bug report if this doesn't work for some file.
pia also is test/debug utility for mpeg decoding. Main focus here is
MPEG1/2 decoding which is needed for DVB (digital video) support.
QuickTime
pia uses libquicktime to decode quicktime movies, thus it should be
able to decode and playback all movies with codecs supported by
libquicktime.
AVI
AVI support is very limited. Video: uncompressed RGB data (15 and 24
bpp) and mjpeg is supported. Audio: raw PCM data and mpeg audio data
works.
WAV
WAV files are playable too, with the same limitation like AVI audio:
only raw PCM and mpeg audio.
MPEG
pia should play mpeg1/2 program streams and transport streams just
fine.
AUTHOR
Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
COPYRIGHT
2002-03 Gerd Knorr
Copyright (C) 2002 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
(c) 2002 Gerd Knorr pia(1)