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pia(1)									pia(1)

NAME
       pia - play media files

SYNOPSIS
       pia [ options ] files

DESCRIPTION
       pia is a small X11 tool which playes 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 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)

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