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)