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).  Additional 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 MERCHANTABILITY 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)