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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
       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)

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