lives(1)

💖 lives(1) — the LiVES glow-up manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to lives, section 1 of the General Commands Manual, aka the LiVES video editing system. This is the manual page that documents briefly the lives command. Brief but iconic. Let's get into it. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

LiVES — LiVES is a Video Editing System. that's it, that's the name, and honestly? ate. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

lives <video_file> <start_time> <frames> [ -help ] [ -version ] [ -set
setname | -noset ] [ -nogui ] [ -aplayer ap ] [ -jackopts opts ] [
-norecover | -recover ] [ -oscstart port | -nooscstart ] [ -devicemap
mapfile ]

no cap, that's the whole shape of it. <video_file>, <start_time>, <frames>, then a lil pile of optional flags doing optional flag things. 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This manual page documents briefly the lives command. (briefly. we're keeping it cute and efficient. ✨)

LiVES lets you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. Like, you just go. no fighting with settings first, no "wait what's my framerate" crisis. LiVES will let you start creating your own tools, utilities and effects via the built in RFX builder. 🛠️ main character energy fr fr.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -help — Show all commandline options and exit. a little menu of everything, then it dips. respect.
• -version — Print the version, copyright and licensing details, and exit. 📜
• -set setname — Start up lives and autoload set setname. 🎬
• -noset — Do not load any set on startup. starting fresh, no baggage, we love that. 🧚
• -nogui — Do not show the GUI. (experimental) — so it's giving "trust me bro, it's experimental", handle with care bestie 🙈
• -aplayer ap — Start with selected audio player. ap can be mplayer, sox or jack.

Note: This sets the audio player permanently. You can change it in preferences. permanently!! like it's not a lil temporary thing, okay? so know that going in. 💀

• -jackopts opts — opts is a bitmap of jack startup options:
  • 1 = jack transport client
  • 2 = jack transport master
  • 4 = start jack transport server
  • 8 = pause audio when video paused
  • 16 = start jack audio server

Note: jackopts are temporary, only for this instance. You need to set them in Preferences if you want to make permanent changes. one-time thing, not a situationship. 🌈

• -norecover — Force no loading of crash recovery. 🚫
• -recover — Force loading of crash recovery (if present). 🩹
• -oscstart port — Start OSC listener on UDP port port if LiVES is compiled with OSC support. 📡 (that "if" is doing a lot of work, so check before you count on it)
• -nooscstart — Do not start OSC listener. 🔇
• -devicemap mapfile — Load in device mapping file mapfile at startup. 🗺️

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

mplayer(1), ImageMagick(1), ffmpeg(1). the whole friend group, all here, all slaying. ⭐

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

lives was written by Gabriel "Salsaman" Finch.

This manual page was originally written by Gürkan Sengün <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). This man page has been updated by Gabriel "Salsaman" Finch <salsaman@xs4all.nl> and Harry Rickards <harry@linux.com>.

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from November 12, 2007, living in section 1 of the General Commands Manual as lives(1) — iconic then, iconic now. go make some video. 💅✨🎀🦋