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pia(1)			     General Commands Manual			  pia(1)

NAME
     pia - play media files

SYNOPSIS
     pia [ options ] movie

DESCRIPTION
     pia is a small X11 tool which plays movie files.

OPTIONS
     pia  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 OSS 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 utilities.  Feel free to submit a bug
     report if this doesn't work for some file.

   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: only uncompressed PCM data works.

   WAV
     WAV  files  are playable too, with the same limitation like AVI audio: only
     uncompressed PCM data.

AUTHOR
     Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

COPYRIGHT
     2002 Gerd Knorr

     Copyright (C) 2002 Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

     This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it un-
     der 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 MERCHANTABILITY or  FIT-
     NESS 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)

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