GTV(1)

📦 version 0.4.5, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

🎀 GTV(1) — like, the manual page, bestie 🎀

okay so real quick: this is a page from the General Commands Manual (that's the manual name, we're folding it in here at the top so you're not confused) and it's all about gtv. bucket list behavior honestly.

✨ NAME ✨

gtv — an MPEG audio (MP3) and video (MPEG-1) player, and yes it has a GTK+ GUI 💅 like a whole cute little window and everything.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gtv file

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you give it a file, it does its thing. no cap.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

bestie. gtv is an MPEG audio and video player, and it's powered by the SDL MPEG Player Library — it's giving "small program, absolutely stacked library" energy fr fr 🫶

here's the tea on what it can actually play back 👑

  • MPEG audio — layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3 (yes bestie, that's your MP3s 🌸)
  • MPEG video — MPEG-1, iconic
  • MPEG system files — that's audio and video combined in one file, main character energy ✨
🚨 and here's the one you need to know: MPEG-2 video files (as found on DVDs) are not supported. not a single one. it's not being shady about it, it literally just can't 😭💀

🌈 the whole performance situation 🌈

okay so about how it looks and how fast it goes — two things, both lowkey important:

  • the video player works best on a 16 bit color depth X11 display ⭐ like that's the moment. that's where it ate.
  • it also works on other color depths — but with reduced speed. so it still shows up to the group chat, it's just walking instead of running 🙈

and the CPU requirement, put it in your calendar 📅 — you'll need a CPU with 300 MHz or more to play back an MPEG system stream with 25 frames per second (fps) at full speed. 25 fps at full speed, that's the bar, and the bar is 300 MHz. periodt 💜

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

✨ AUTHOR ✨

the SDL MPEG Player Library was written by Karl Robillard and Sam Lantinga of Loki Entertainment Software 👑 absolute legends, we stan.

got bugs? got fixes? please report any bugs and/or fixes to smpeg@lokigames.com 💌 they want to hear from you, that's the whole point of the inbox.

and this manual page itself? written by Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system 🍓 — but it may be used elsewhere under the GPL, so it's generous like that. slay.

and that's the whole page bestie, no extra lore, no hidden chapters 💖

okay so about the footer — the original page just signs off with GTV(1) one more time. no version number, no date, no source string, nothing. just the name again. it's giving "arrived, said the name, left." honestly? iconic. 🎀 bye bestie!! 🎀

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