GMERLIN-SERVER(1)

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✨ GMERLIN-SERVER ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Manuals (that's section 1 of the manual, iykyk) and it's literally all about gmerlin-server, aka the Gmerlin media server. pull up a chair, we're doing this together 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

gmerlin-server — Gmerlin media server. that's it, that's the name, she's iconic and she knows it 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gmerlin-server [options]

that's the whole vibe. you run it, you hand it some options, it does server things ✨

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Gmerlin Mediaserver.

fr fr, that's the entire description in the original, so I'm not about to invent lore for you. it's the Gmerlin media server. main character energy, minimal words. periodt 👑

💜 OPTIONS 💜

these are the server's own special little flags, her personal faves:

  • -c <file> — load the config from a file. give her the file, she reads it, slay 📂
  • -sc <file> — save the current config out to a file. she's journaling, basically ✨

🌈 GENERIC OPTIONS 🌈

okay so these ones aren't special to the server — they're the generic options that literally all gmerlin applications have. the whole squad shares them 🫶

  • -help — print this help message and exit. classic, we love a helpful queen
  • -help-man — print this help message as a manual page and exit. manpage mode activated 😌
  • -help-texi — print this help message in texinfo format and exit. texinfo girlies rise up
  • -version — print version info and exit. who is she? what version? find out 💅
  • -v level — set the verbosity level, and the range is 0..4. crank it up for chaos, keep it low for peace 🔥
  • -syslog name — log to syslog under the specified name. she's logging, but make it named ✨
  • -stderr — always log to stderr. no cap, everything goes straight to stderr, always 💀

🍓 FILES 🍓

the places she keeps her stuff, bestie. know them, love them:

  • ~/.gmerlin/plugins.xml — the cache of the plugin registry, and it's shared by all the applications. one cache, everyone's using it, it's giving communal ✨
  • ~/.gmerlin/generic/cfg.xml — default plugin parameters get read from here. and if you wanna change them? use gmerlin_plugincfg, that's the tool for it 🎀

and that's the whole page!! short and sweet, just like her 💖

no hidden sections, no skipped options, no drama. every flag made it in, every file path is intact, and nothing got invented. that's the standard, and we meet it 🌸

signing off from the Gmerlin corner of the internet — this page is brought to you by Gmerlin, dated 2025-09-26, and yes, that date is the vibe check. mwah 💅🦋

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