BLIND-REPEAT(1)

📦 version 1.1, in alpine 3.24

💖 blind-repeat(1) — repeat a video, bestie 💖

okay so this page is from the General Commands Manual, and it's all about blind-repeat, a certified little video-looping icon. no cap, it's giving "make the video go again" energy 🌈

🌸 NAME 🌸

blind-repeat — Repeat a video ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

blind-repeat (count | 'inf') file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

blind-repeat writes the a video to stdout that is a loop of the selected video. the looped video is read from the selected file. 💅

the video gets repeated count times, or — if 'inf' is selected instead of count — it keeps going until there is no process the reads from this process's stdout. yes bestie, 'inf' is the "go until nobody's listening" mode 🫶

file must be a regular file, or '-'. if file is '-', blind-repeat will read stdin into memory.

⚠️ you are highly discouraged from using this unless stdin is a single frame, or known to only be a very small number of frames, because it can potentially use all of the computer's memory 😭💀

🎀 REQUIREMENTS 🎀

blind-repeat requires enough free memory to load the entire video into memory if it is read from stdin. 🧠✨

a frame requires 32 bytes per pixel it contains. so for a 720p video at 25 Hz, 1 GB is reached in just below 1.5 seconds. yeah. that's not a drill, that's math 🔥

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se> 🫶

sign-off time, bestie: this page is from blind 1.1 💖 no date is printed on it, so I'm not inventing one — we don't do fake facts in this group chat 💅✨

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