atitv(1)

📦 version 0.0.5, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing

💖 atitv — bestie's lil text-mode video tool from the GATOS pack 💖

manual page for atitv, straight outta the GATOS Manual ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

atitv — a simple text-mode program from the GATOS package 🎀 yes she's literally that girl

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

atitv

no flags, no args, just vibes (well, until you add some 👀)

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so atitv is still under development — she's a work in progress, we love a growing queen 💅 — but she already gives you the basic functionality you need to record video and take snapshots. That's the whole serve. 🫶

🎀 FILE FORMATS 🎀

ngl bestie, this part matters so listen up 👂

  • motion capture in atitv uses a special .yuv file format that is unique to gatos 💫 so don't go expecting your other apps to just open it, iykyk
  • snapshots tho? those save to .ppm files, and those are viewable (and convertible) by most graphics programs 🌈 so you can actually show your friends

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — get help 🆘 she'll explain herself
  • --version — get version info ⭐ know which era of her you're dealing with
  • -m <mux> — specify which input to use: Composite, SVHS or TV 📺 pick your connector, pick your destiny
  • -v <volume> — set the volume 🔊 turn it up or turn it down, your call
  • -c <channel> — set the channel 📡
  • -s <xs> <ys> — set the capture size 📐 width and height, both of them, she needs both

👑 COMMANDS 👑

  • rec <n> <f> — record a yuv file for n seconds to filename f 🎥⏱️
  • snap <f> — capture a single ppm frame to filename f 📸 one frame, one file, done

🌟 EXAMPLES 🌟

exhibit A — the two-for-one channel flip 🎬

atitv -c 10 rec 10 f1.yuv -c 11 rec 10 f2.yuv

This one will change to channel 10, record 10 seconds to f1.yuv, then change to channel 11 and record 10 seconds to f2.yuv 🔥 two recordings, zero extra effort, ate

exhibit B — the single snapshot ✨

atitv -m SVHS snap pic.ppm

This one will change to the SVHS connector and capture one frame to pic.ppm 📷🦋

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /etc/gatos.conf — configuration file of GATOS 🗂️ the sacred text

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

gatos, gatos-conf, gatos.conf, atisplit, atitogif, atitojpg, atitoppm, xatitv, yuvsum, scanpci — the whole friend group 💜 go say hi

💖 AUTHORS 💖

atitv was written and copyrighted by Steaphan Greene, Øyvind Aabling, Octavian Purdila, Vladimir Dergachev, Christian Lupien, and Daniel Caujolle-Bert 👑👑👑 absolute icons, every single one, no cap 🫶

and that's the tea bestie ☕ — this page is from the GATOS Manual, dated 20 Dec 1999, and yes she's serving atitv(1) energy forever ✨💅🎀 periodt

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