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AAXINE(1)		     General Commands Manual		       AAXINE(1)

NAME
     aaxine - an ASCII art video player

SYNOPSIS
     aaxine  [aalib-options] [-A<audio-driver>] [-a<audio-channel>] [-R<rec-by>]
     [MRL...]

DESCRIPTION
     This manual page explains the aaxine program. Aaxine,  is	an  aalib  based
     frontend for libxine, a versatile video/multimedia player.

     aaxine  is for those who don't have a high end video card, but just want to
     watch DVDs on their good old vt100 ;-)

     Like xine, aaxine plays MPEG system (audio and video) streams, mpeg elemen-
     tary streams (e.g. .mp3 or .mpv files), avi files (using  win32  codecs  or
     ffmpeg),  (S)VCDs,  DVDs and many more. In short, anything that's supported
     by xine-lib.

OPTIONS
     The program follows usual GNU command line syntax, with long options start-
     ing with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options are included below.  For a
     complete description, see README and FAQ in /usr/local/share/doc/xine-ui or
     on the xine home page.

     -h, --help
	    Show summary of options and available output drivers (plugins).

     A big bunch of these options is provided by aalib.  Please  refer	to  your
     aalib documentation for those!

     The  remaining  options,  labelled AAXINE options: when listed with "aaxine
     --help", are explained here.

     -A, --audio-driver <drv>
	    Use given audio driver. Available drivers can be listed with "aaxine
	    --help"

     -a, --audio-channel <num>
	    Use given audio channel. Channels are sequentially numbered  from  0
	    for first audio track.

     -R, --recognize-by [option]
	    Determine the method used to recognize stream type. Possible options
	    are:
	    `default': by content, then by extension,
	    `revert': by extension, then by content,
	    `content': only by content,
	    `extension': only by extension.
	    If -R is given without an additional option, `revert' is selected.

MRLs
     MRLs  are	similar  to URLs in your web browser. They describe the media to
     read from. valid MRLs may be plain file names or one of the following:
     file:<path>
     fifo:<path>
     stdin:/
     dvd:/<title>.<part>
     vcd:/<tracknumber>
     tcp://<host>:<port>
     rtp://<host>:<port>
     udp://<host>:<port>
     mms://<host>...
     http://<host>...
     cdda://<tracknumber>

     Several MRLs may be specified in order to	play  a  number  of  consecutive
     streams.  Additional  input plugins will provide additional MRL types.  The
     ones listed above are available with stock libxine...
     After a delimiting # you can add several stream parameters:

     novideo
	    video will be ignored

     noaudio
	    audio will be ignored

     nospu  subpictures will be ignored

     demux:<demux name>
	    specify the demux plugin to use

     volume:<level>
	    set audio volume

     compression:<level>
	    set audio dynamic range compression

     <config entry>:<config value>
	    assign a new value to any config entry

CONTROL KEYS
     Many features can be controlled by pressing control keys. The Key	bindings
     are:

     <RETURN> / R
	    Play

     <SPACE> / P
	    Pause

     0	    Jump to start of current stream

     1 .. 9 Jump to 10%..90% of current stream

     <PgUp> Jump to previous stream in playlist

     <PgDown>
	    Jump to next stream in playlist

     +	    Select  next audio channel (may take up to a few seconds to take ef-
	    fect)

     -	    Select prev audio channel

     Q	    Exit.

BUGS
     none, of course ;-) Well, there are surely a few of those. You can probably
     best ask for support (and report  bugs)  on  our  mailing	list  at  <xine-
     user@lists.sf.net>.

SEE ALSO
     xine(1),	 http://www.xine-project.org/,	 http://aa-project.sf.net/aalib,
     xine-lib(3)

AUTHOR
     Siggi Langauf for the xine project.

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright (C) 2001 The xine project

The xine project		 August 29, 2001		       AAXINE(1)
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