lqtplay(1)

✨ lqtplay — the manual page bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this is lqtplay(1), living in the General Commands Manual section 1, and she's a whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

lqtplay — a simple quicktime movie player for X11. no cap, that's the whole job description 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

lqtplay [ options ] file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea: lqtplay just plays the given quicktime movie in a window on your X11 display. that's it. that's the assignment. ✨

Sound gets played using an OSS dsp device or Alsa (if it's available). some info about the movie, plus some other stuff, gets printed on stderr — so don't be shocked when your terminal starts yapping. there is no fancy GUI, bestie. the only interactive element is that you can resize the window, and lqtplay will adapt the video size if support for hardware-scaled video is available. that's the entire interaction. iconic minimalism honestly 👑

lqtplay comes with libquicktime and uses libquicktime to read and decode the movies. she is a sample application and intentionally kept simple — like, that's on purpose, don't come for her. if you want a full-featured media player, have a look at gstreamer instead. periodt 💜

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -noxv — don't use the Xvideo extension for accelerated video playback (that's the YUV->RGB color space conversion + video scaling in hardware, iykyk). skipping the glow-up, basically 🙈
• -nogl — don't use OpenGL (via the GLX extension) for video scaling. by default lqtplay tries to use 3D textures to scale RGB frames in hardware if DRI is available. so this flag is you saying "not today, GPU" 💀
• -noalsa — don't use Alsa for audio output. by default lqtplay uses Alsa if it was available at compile time. so if your build said yes to Alsa and you're feeling messy, this is the off switch 🎧

also, the usual toolkit options (like -geometry) are accepted too. she's flexible like that 🌈

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>

and that's the page, bestie! this was lqtplay(1) from the General Commands Manual, copyright 2002 Gerd Knorr — shoutout to the author for this little sample-app legend 🫶💖 thanks for reading, go play a movie, slay responsibly ✨🎬