GMERLIN_TRANSCODER(1)

💖 GMERLIN_TRANSCODER 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair because we're talking about gmerlin_transcoder — that's the gmerlin transcoder, from the gmerlin manual pages (section 1, the user-commands girlies 🫶). she's a GUI queen and she's here to convert your media files into other media files. no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gmerlin_transcoder [options]

like, that's it. that's the whole vibe. you run her, you pass her some options, she does her thing. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

GTK multimedia transcoder.

okay so yes, that's the whole description and honestly? iconic of her to say so much with so little. she's a GTK app that transcodes multimedia — i.e. takes your audio/video and makes it into a different audio/video. the way that she just. does that. 🦋

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -p <file> — load a profile from the given file. that's it, that's the option. your settings come pre-baked in <file> and she'll gobble them right up. 🎀

⭐ GENERIC OPTIONS ⭐

these ones are not special to her, btw — the following generic options are available for all gmerlin applications. so every gmerlin app in the family shares these. family plan energy. 👑

• -help — print this help message and exit. short and sweet, she tells you how to use her and then she leaves. bye. 💨
• -help-man — print this help message as a manual page and exit. yes, as a manual page. she contains multitudes. 📜
• -help-texi — print this help message in texinfo format and exit. for the documentation girlies specifically. 🧚
• -version — print version info and exit. who is she? which build? find out. ⭐
• -v level — set verbosity level (0..4). 0 to 4, no more no less. crank it up if you want her to yap, dial it down if you want silence. 🍓
• -syslog name — log to syslog the specified name. she'll send her little diary entries to syslog under name. 📝
• -stderr — always log to stderr. she will not be quiet. she will not be redirected. stderr, periodt. 🔥

🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

• GMERLIN_TRANSCODER_REMOTE_PORT — default port for the remote control. so if you wanna remote-control her, this is the port she'll be listening on by default. remote control bestie 🎮

heads up: keep an eye on your -v level values — it's 0..4 and that's the range, fr fr. anything outside is not her business. 🙈

💜 aww and that's the whole page!! this manual came from Gmerlin, dated September 2021, and it lives at GMERLIN_TRANSCODER(1) in the user manuals section. slay, go transcode something, mwah 💖✨