GAVF-MUX(1)

💖 GAVF-MUX 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the gavf-mux page from the User Manuals section — yes it's a manual page, yes it's giving ✨official✨, but we're gonna make it make sense.

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✨ NAME ✨

gavf-mux — mux (like, multiplex, the slay version of "combine") multiple gavf streams into one. one stream. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gavf-mux [options]

that's it. that's the whole invocation. no positional args, no drama, just options. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

gavf tee

(that's literally the whole description in the original, bestie — short and iconic. it tees, iykyk. 👑)

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -i <location> — input file or location, fr fr. use this option multiple times to add more inputs — stack 'em up like your spotify playlists. 🎧
• -o <output> — the output file or location. where it all goes. the main character destination. ⭐
• -m name=value — set global metadata on the output. you can use this multiple times (go off, add all the tags you want). pro tip: use name= (with nothing after the equals) to clear a field. 🧹
• -oopt param1=val1[&param2=val2...] — output options, chained with & like a little query string. details below 👇
  • shm=<number> (default: 1024) — SHM threshold. this picks the minimum packet size for using shared memory for a stream. non-positive values disable shared memory completely, so no shm at all. 🫶
  • to=<number> (range: 500..100000, default: 5000) — timeout, in milliseconds. ⏱️
  • dp=[1|0] (default: 0) — dump gavf packets. use this for debugging, bestie — it's the "why is this not working 😭" button. 🙈

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🌈 GENERIC OPTIONS 🌈

these ones are available for all gmerlin applications, so they're like the shared group chat every app is in. 💬

• -help — print this help message and exit. bye 👋
• -help-man — print this help message as a manual page and exit. very meta. 💀
• -help-texi — print this help message in texinfo format and exit. fancy. 📖
• -version — print version info and exit. 🏷️
• -v level — set verbosity level (0..4). crank it up if you wanna hear everything. 🔊
• -syslog name — log to syslog with the specified name. 📮
• -stderr — always log to stderr. no cap, always. 🔥

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• ~/.gmerlin/plugins.xml — cache of the plugin registry. shared by all applications, so everyone's eating from the same plate. 🍽️
• ~/.gmerlin/generic/cfg.xml — default plugin parameters are read from there. use gmerlin_plugincfg to change them. ✏️

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okay one lil warning bestie: those ~/.gmerlin/ paths are in your home dir, so be nice to them. 🥺

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Gmerlin 🎀 dated 2025-09-26 — that's the source, the version vibe, and the date, all wrapped up in a little bow. thanks for reading, mwah 💖✨