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NAME

       xine - a free video player

MRL (media resource locator)

       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 (see also the notes below):

       • Filesystem:
              file:<path>
              fifo:<path>
              stdin:/

       • CD and DVD:
              dvd:/[device_name][/title[.part]]
              dvd:/DVD_image_file[/title[.part]]
              dvd:/DVD_directory[/title[.part]]
                   (use the path of the directory which contains VIDEO_TS)
              vcd://[CD_image_or_device_name][@[letter]number]
              vcdo://track_number
              cdda:/[device][/track_number]

       • Video devices:
              v4l://[tuner_device/frequency]
              v4l2://tuner_device
              dvb://channel_number
                   (nth channel in your channels.conf)
              dvb://channel_name
              dvbc://channel_name:tuning_parameters
              dvbs://channel_name:tuning_parameters
              dvbt://channel_name:tuning_parameters
              dvba://channel_name:tuning_parameters
              pvr:/tmp_files_path!saved_files_path!max_page_age
                   (for WinTV PVR 250 and 350)

       • Network:
              http://host...
              tcp://host[:port]
              udp://host[:port[?iface=interface]]
              rtp://host[:port[?iface=interface]]
                   (default port for tcp, udp and rtp is 7658)
              smb://...
              mms://host...
              pnm://host...
              rtsp://host...  (requires Real codecs)

       Additional input plugins will provide additional MRL types. The ones  listed  above  are  available  with
       stock libxine.

       NOTE:  where a file name is required, the full path must be provided - from a shell, you can normally use
       "$PWD/file" or "$(pwd)/file" or "`pwd`/file" if the file is in the current directory. (Which one  depends
       on your shell; all three work in bash. Also, normal URL encoding rules apply; `%', in particular, must be
       encoded as `%25'.)

       As of xine-lib 1.1.3, the DVD title number may be 0 (select navigation) and the chapter number may  be  0
       (full title).

   VCD MRL Syntax
       A  simple  vcd:/  runs  the  default  item (e.g. perhaps track 1 or entry 0) using the default VCD device
       (perhaps /dev/cdrom). Both the default item and default device are user-configurable.

       It is however also possible to specify both Video CD device/filename and item explicitly in the MRL.

       For example vcd:/dev/dvd specifies the default entry using device /dev/dvd which might useful if this  is
       your  DVD  which  is  different  than  your  CD-ROM  device  and  your  DVD  drive  can  play  CD's.  And
       vcd://test_svcd_ntsc.cue specifies the cue file  for  CD  image  on  disk.   (test_svcd_ntsc.bin  is  the
       corresponding bin file, but using that won't work.)

       After  the  optional device name or file name, you can name the kind of unit, preceded by a colon. An MRL
       which ends in a colon is like not adding it at all: the default entry type and number is used. Items come
       in  4  flavours:  "Track",  "Entry", "Playback" and "Segment". These units are indicated with the capital
       first letter of each type: T, E, P, S, s. An uppercase S in the MRL  display  indicates  a  NTSC  segment
       while  a  lowercase s indicates a PAL segment.  However, when you enter an MRL, the case of these letters
       is insignificant.

       Depending on the Video CD, you might not have any playable segments (S,s) or playback  control  (P).   If
       you  give  a  MRL that refers to a playback control entry but there is no playback control, your playback
       number will silently be converted into the corresponding entry number.

       You can configure various things that affect MRLs are selected when there is some ambiguity  in  the  MRL
       name.  media.vcd.autoplay  sets  what  kind  of  unit  to  to  use  in  a  MRL is none is given.  Another
       configuration setting, vcd.device, determines what device to use if that part is not given.  When you hit
       the  VCD  button, that is equivalent to entering vcd:/ and thus these two configuration settings are used
       to expand the MRL.

       Some examples of MRLs are given below. In the examples, we assume the following configuration settings:

       vcd:// Play (navigate) default item (in this case Entry ID 0) from the default device (in this  case  set
              to /dev/cdrom)

       vcd://@
              Same as above

       vcd:///dev/cdrom@
              Same effect as above since the default device is set to /dev/cdrom.

       vcd:///dev/cdrom@E0
              Same as above. But note that this is because we have autoplay:entry which is no longer the default
              value.

       vcd:///dev/cdrom2@
              Play (navigate) the default item of /dev/cdrom2

       vcd:///dev/cdrom2
              should be same as above but is currently broken?

       vcd:///dev/cdrom2@T1
              Play Track 1 from /dev/cdrom2

       vcd:///dev/cdrom@S1
              Play segment 1 from /dev/cdrom. This assumes that there *is* a segment 1.  Check the MRL  list  to
              see if that is the case.

       vcd://@P1
              Play  playlist  item  1  from  default  device.  If  there is no playback control, the MRL will be
              converted into vcd:/@E0.  Again check the MRL list to see if there is a P1.

       vcd://@P1*
              Probably same as above.

       vcd:///dev/cdrom@E1
              Play Entry id 1 from default device.

       vcd://@S0
              Play segment 0 from default device.

       vcd://@3
              Play track 3 from default device.

       vcd:///dev/cdrom2:1
              Play track 1 from /dev/cdrom2.

       vcd:///tmp/ntsc.cue@
              Play default item (E0) of /tmp/ntsc.bin. Note trailing @.

       vcd://ntsc.cue/@E0
              Play entry 0 of ntsc.bin.

       vcd:///tmp/ntsc.nrg/@E0
              Play entry 0 of /tmp/ntsc.nrg (Nero file). Works for some simple Nero images.

   DVB
       DVB MRLs require that xine-lib/channels.conf exists in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ or ~/.config/ and contains valid
       data.   This  can  be  obtained by generating a tuning file using the LinuxTV DVB apps utility "scan" (or
       "dvbscan" if you're using a version newer than 1.1.0):

       scan -o zap /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-PontopPike >~/.config/xine-lib/channels.conf

       (This example is for the writer's local transmitter, using a file from the Debian dvb-utils package.)

       For the dvbc, dvbs and dvbt MRLs, tuning parameters are expected, taking one of the following forms:

       DVB-S  <frequency>:<polarisation>:<sat-no>:<sym-rate>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>

       DVB-C  <frequency>:<inversion>:<sym-rate>:<fec>:<qam>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>

       DVB-T  <frequency>:<inversion>:<bw>:<fec-hp>:<fec-lp>:<qam>:<transmission-mode>:<guardlist>:<hierarchy-
              info>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>

       DVB-A  <frequency>:<qam>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>

       The individual parameters are:

       frequency           number, usually in kHz

       polarisation        `v' or `h'

       sat-no              unsigned long, usually 0

       sym-rate            symbol rate in MSyms/sec

       inversion           INVERSION_ON, INVERSION_OFF, INVERSION_AUTO

       fec, fec-hp, fec-lp FEC_1_2, FEC_2_3, FEC_3_4 ... FEC_8_9, FEC_AUTO, FEC_NONE

       qam                 QPSK, QAM_128, QAM_16 ...

       bw                  BANDWIDTH_6_MHZ, BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ, BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ

       transmission-mode   TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K, TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K

       guardlist           GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4, GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8, GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16, GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32,

       hierarchy-info      HIERARCHY_1, HIERARCHY_2, HIERARCHY_4, HIERARCHY_NONE

       vpid                video program ID

       apid                audio program ID

       service-id          service ID (needed for now/next information etc.)

       The following keyboard & mouse inputs may be accepted:

       Menu 2                  Start/stop recording

       Menu 3                  Toggle zoom

       Menu 7                  Toggle now/next display

       Previous/Next Chapter   Previous/next channel

       Mouse wheel & button 1  Scroll through channel list & select the highlighted channel

SUBTITLE

       external subtitle files (any mrl)
       Text subtitle files may be appended to the MRL:.

       <mrl>#subtitle:<subtitlefile>
              This  is  the normal way to define the subtitle file to use. The frontend will not take any notice
              of the subtitle file. For example:
              file://home/user/wibble.mpg#subtitle:/home/user/wibble.sub
              (Note that some front ends can detect subtitles files where the  name  differs  as  shown  in  the
              example.)

STREAM OPTIONS

       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.

       save:<file>
              Save  the  stream  (if  allowed)  to the named file, relative to the directory given by the option
              "media.capture.save_dir".

       change configuration option 'on the fly':
              You can change a configuration option at any time, using the special cfg:/ MRL style.  The  syntax
              is:
                   cfg:/<config entry> : <config value>
              Unlike stream config option, you can change anything before playing the stream.

SEE ALSO

       xine(1), aaxine(1), gxine(1), toxine(1), totem(1), kaffeine(1) ...

       The  programs  are documented fully on the xine home page: http://www.xine-project.org/http://www.xine-
       project.org/⟩

AUTHOR

       This text was extracted from the xine man page by Darren Salt  <dsalt@users.sourceforge.net>.   The  xine
       man  page  was  written  by  Siggi Langauf <siggi@debian.org> for the xine project.  Lots of additions by
       Guenter  Bartsch  <guenter@users.sourceforge.net>,  Daniel  Caujolle-Bert  <f1rmb@users.sourceforge.net>,
       Rocky Bernstein <rocky@panix.com>, and Philipp Hahn <pmhahn@users.sourceforge.net>.