avp(1)

📦 version 2.2.4, in ubuntu stonking

💖 avp — the girlies' guide to making videos out of your audio 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the avp(1) page, aka section 1 of the General Commands Manual 🎀 this is the moment. sit down, grab a strawberry drink 🍓, and let me tell you about the little GUI tool that turns your audio into a whole visual era.

✨ NAME ✨

avp — create video from audio files 🎬🎧 no cap, that's literally the whole job.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

avp [options] file...

that's it. that's the shape of it. options and then files, slay.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so avp (which stands for audio-visualizer-python, iykyk) is this little GUI tool that cooks up an audio visualization video from an input audio file. like, you give it audio, it gives you a video that moves with the audio. iconic behaviour honestly.

and the way that you can add different components and layer them?? that's the main character move. you stack them up to change the whole resulting video vibe and you can add images, videos, gradients, text, etc. literally whatever you want. 🙈

also the encoding options are changeable with a whole variety of different output containers, so you're not locked into one format. we love flexibility. periodt. 💅

💜 OPTIONS 💜

quick PSA: these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (-). summary of the options is right here below 👇 and for a complete description, see the Info files.

  • -h, --help — show a summary of options. your lil cheat sheet, bestie 🫶
  • -i, --input INPUT — the input audio file. the raw material. the ingredient 🎵
  • -o, --output OUTPUT — the output video file. the finished serve 🔥
  • --export-project — uses the input and output files from the project file if -i or -o is missing. so if you forgot to say the thing, it'll go look in the project file instead. thoughtful of it honestly 🥰
  • --log — copies and shortens recent log files into ~/avp_log.txt. cute lil archive of what went down 📝
  • -v, --verbose — creates bigger logfiles while the program is running. more detail, more mess, more lore. 💀
  • -c, --comp [LAYER [ARG ...]] — the first arg must be the component NAME to insert at LAYER. and if you type "help"? it gives you information about the possible args for a component. so helpful of it 🌈
  • --no-preview — disables the live preview during export. the "i trust the process" button 🧚
no preview? no problem. but like… you won't see it until it's done, bestie. just so you know. 🙈

and that's the whole page!! go make something gorgeous, you've got this 👑

signing off with love from the avp(1) fam — this beauty is dated January 13 2026, and yeah, it's still indexed under avp(1) in the General Commands Manual because some things are simply timeless. bye bestie, drink water, back up your projects 💖✨

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