GAVF-RECOMPRESS(1)

✨ NAME ✨

gavf-recompress — bestie, it recompresses streams of a gavf stream 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gavf-recompress [options]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It's a gavf recompressor. That's the whole vibe. 🌸

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -i <input_file> — the input file or location, where we're reading from 🫶
• -iopt <input_options> — input options, no cap
• -o <output> — the output file or location, where the magic lands ✨
• -m name=value — set global metadata on the output (you can do this multiple times, stack 'em). Use "name=" to clear a field 🧹
• -oopt <output_options> — options
• -as <stream_selector> — a comma separated list of characters: 'd' (decode), 'm' (mute) or 'c' (read compressed)
• -vs <stream_selector> — a comma separated list of characters: 'd' (decode), 'm' (mute) or 'c' (read compressed)
• -ts <stream_selector> — a comma separated list of characters: 'm' (mute) or 'c' (read) — yeah, no 'd' here, that's not a typo 💀
• -os <stream_selector> — a comma separated list of characters: 'd' (decode), 'm' (mute) or 'c' (read compressed)
• -ac param1=val1[&param2=val2...] — audio compression options, and they're shaped like p=option[{suboptions}]
  • Supported options:
  • Default: (null)
  • Compression
• -vc param1=val1[&param2=val2...] — video compression options, shaped like p=option[{suboptions}]
  • Supported options:
  • Default: (null)
  • Compression
• -oc param1=val1[&param2=val2...] — overlay compression options, shaped like p=option[{suboptions}]
  • Supported options:
  • Default: (null)
  • Compression
• -fa — force audio recompression even if the input stream already has the compression you asked for. Like, it's already cute but we're redoing it anyway 😤
• -fv — force video recompression even if the input stream already has the desired compression already
• -fo — force overlay recompression even if the input stream already has the desired compression already

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🌈 GENERIC OPTIONS 🌈

These ones? They work for all gmerlin applications, so they're basically the group chat everyone's in 💜

• -help — print this help message and exit
• -help-man — print this help message as a manual page and exit
• -help-texi — print this help message in texinfo format and exit
• -version — print version info and exit
• -v level — set the verbosity level (0..4)
• -syslog name — log to syslog under the specified name
• -stderr — always log to stderr

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• ~/.gmerlin/plugins.xml — the cache of the plugin registry (shared by all applications, so everybody's reading the same file, iykyk)
• ~/.gmerlin/generic/cfg.xml — default plugin parameters get read from right here. Use gmerlin_plugincfg to change them ✨

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Heads up bestie: that ~/.gmerlin/generic/cfg.xml is where your default plugin params live, so if something's acting weird, that's your first stop 🫶

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Okay that's literally the whole page 💖 this manual came from Gmerlin, dated 2025-09-26 — go forth and recompress, you absolute icon 👑✨