AAXINE(1)

✨ AAXINE(1) — the aaxine manual, bestie 🎀

💖 NAME

okay so the whole thing is aaxine — an ASCII art video player 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS

aaxine [aalib-options] [-A<audio-driver>] [-a<audio-channel>] [-R<rec-by>] [MRL...]

🧚 DESCRIPTION

okay so this page is gonna explain the aaxine program 💅 aaxine is an aalib based frontend for libxine, which is a versatile video/multimedia player. it's giving pure main character energy ✨

aaxine is for those who don't have a high end video card but just want to watch DVDs on their good old vt100 ;-) no cap, the retro vibes are immaculate 🙈

like xine, aaxine plays MPEG system (audio and video) streams, mpeg elementary streams (e.g. .mp3 or .mpv files), avi files (using win32 codecs or ffmpeg), (S)VCDs, DVDs and many more 🔥 basically anything that's supported by xine-lib. slay 👑

🎀 OPTIONS

the program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, where long options start with two dashes (-). a summary of the options is down below 🫶 for the full tea, check the README and FAQ in /usr/share/doc/xine-ui or on the xine home page 📚

• -h, --help — shows a summary of the options and the available output drivers (plugins) 💜

a big bunch of these options come from aalib, so for those you'll want to check your aalib documentation 🌈

the rest of the options, the ones labelled AAXINE options when you run aaxine --help, are explained right here 🦋

• -A, --audio-driver <drv> — uses the audio driver you give it 🔊 you can list the available drivers with aaxine --help
• -a, --audio-channel <num> — uses the audio channel you give it 🎧 channels are numbered sequentially from 0 for the first audio track 💖
• -R, --recognize-by [option] — decides how the stream type gets recognized 🔍 the possible options are:
  • default: by content, then by extension
  • revert: by extension, then by content
  • content: only by content
  • extension: only by extension

if you use -R without an extra option, revert gets picked for you 🍓

🌈 MRLs

MRLs are kinda like URLs in your web browser 🌐 they describe the media to read from. valid MRLs can be plain file names or one of these:

file:<path>
fifo:<path>
stdin:/
dvd:/<title>.<part>
vcd:/<tracknumber>
tcp://<host>:<port>
rtp://<host>:<port>
udp://<host>:<port>
mms://<host>...
http://<host>...
cdda://<tracknumber>

you can specify several MRLs to play a bunch of consecutive streams 🎬 additional input plugins will provide additional MRL types 🧩 the ones listed above are available with stock libxine...

after a delimiting #, you can add several stream parameters 💅

• novideo — video gets ignored 🙈
• noaudio — audio gets ignored 🔇
• nospu — subpictures get ignored 🚫
• demux:<demux name> — picks the demux plugin to use 🎞️
• volume:<level> — sets the audio volume 🔊
• compression:<level> — sets the audio dynamic range compression 🎚️
• <config entry>:<config value> — assigns a new value to any config entry ⭐

🎮 CONTROL KEYS

so many features can be controlled by pressing control keys 😭 here are the key bindings:

• <RETURN> / R — play ▶️
• <SPACE> / P — pause ⏸️
• 0 — jumps to the start of the current stream ⏮️
• 1 .. 9 — jumps to 10%..90% of the current stream 🎯
• <PgUp> — jumps to the previous stream in the playlist ⬅️
• <PgDown> — jumps to the next stream in the playlist ➡️
• + — selects the next audio channel (it may take up to a few seconds to take effect ⏳)
• - — selects the previous audio channel ⬅️
• Q — exits 👋

🐛 BUGS

none, of course ;-) well, there are surely a few of those 💀 you can probably best ask for support (and report bugs) on our mailing list at <xine-user@lists.sf.net> 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO

xine(1), http://www.xine-project.org/, http://aa-project.sf.net/aalib, xine-lib(3) 📖

👑 AUTHOR

Siggi Langauf for the xine project 💖

🌟 COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2001 The xine project ✨

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okay bestie, that's the whole tea, now go watch some DVDs on your vt100 🎀💅 xine project · August 29, 2001 · AAXINE(1) 🦋💜