KINO2RAW(1)

📦 version 1.3.4, in ubuntu jammy

💖 KINO2RAW(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to kino2raw, straight outta the General Commands Manual section of your local man pages. she's a tiny little utility with big main character energy, and we're gonna get you two fully acquainted. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

kino2raw — the girl who takes a Kino SMIL file and spits raw DV out to stdout, no cap ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kino2raw smil-file [ ( aspect | normalisation ) ]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one required file, one optional little garnish. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie. kino2raw reads a smil-file — one of those files that the one and only kino made — and it also reads all the video files that smil-file references. 📼

then, because she's generous, she outputs the whole presentation as raw DV to stdout. like, straight to standard output. which means she's built for piping into something else, fr fr. she is a pipe girlie. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

now listen. kino2raw optionally accepts a metadata option, and if you give her one, she's gonna output that meta value as text on stdout instead of the raw DV. like, it's one or the other, babe. she doesn't do both. 🙈

and the key thing: she only outputs raw DV when there is no metadata option present. periodt. 💀

there are currently two metadata options, and here they are, iconic as always:

  • aspect — returns the display aspect ratio of the movie, based upon the first frame, as either "4:3" or "16:9" 💖
  • normalisation — returns the video standard of the movie, based upon the the first frame (yes, the original really does say "the the", and we respect the original here at kino2raw stan account), as either "ntsc" or "pal" 🌈
both of these are judged off the first frame, so the first frame is literally the main character. no pressure, first frame. 👑

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

  • kino (1) — go say hi to her, she's the one who made the smil-files in the first place 🎬

💜 AUTHORS 💜

kino2raw was written by Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org> — thank you Dan, we are obsessed, we are seated, we are grateful. 🫶✨

okay and finally, the lil sign-off, because this page is dated March 2007 and it belongs to the KINO2RAW(1) manual — yes, the same one we've been living in this whole time. bye bestie, go pipe something beautiful. 💅🎀🌸

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