mia-2dimageselect(1)
๐ mia-2dimageselect โ the manual, but make it cute ๐
okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for mia-2dimageselect ๐ this one's short, sweet, and honestly kinda iconic.
โจ NAME โจ
mia-2dimageselect โ select one image from a multi-record file ๐ฆ
๐ธ SYNOPSIS ๐ธ
mia-2dimageselect -i <in-file> -o <out-file> [options]
๐ DESCRIPTION ๐
ok so like, mia-2dimageselect is that girl who walks into a multi-image file, looks around at all the pictures, and goes "yeah I'm taking this one." ๐ซถ That's it. That's the whole job. This program is used to select one 2D images from a multi-image file. (yes, "one 2D images", the original said it like that, we don't gatekeep grammar around here ๐)
โจ OPTIONS โจ
-i,--in-file=(input, required); io โ the input images ๐ (for supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io)-o,--out-file=(output, required); io โ the output image โจ (for supported file types see PLUGINS:2dimage/io)-n,--number=0 โ image number to be selected ๐ข
๐ Help & Info ๐
-V,--verbose=warning โ verbosity of output, print messages of given level and higher priorities. Supported priorities starting at lowest level are:traceโ Function call tracedebugโ Debug outputinfoโ Low level messagesmessageโ Normal messageswarningโ Warningsfailโ Report test failureserrorโ Report errorsfatalโ Report only fatal errors
--copyrightโ print copyright information ๐-h,--helpโ print this help ๐-?,--usageโ print a short help ๐--versionโ print the version number and exit ๐ท๏ธ
๐ฅ Processing ๐ฅ
--threads=-1 โ Maxiumum number of threads to use for processing,This number should be lower or equal to the number of logical processor cores in the machine. (-1: automatic estimation). ๐ง ๐จ (yes, "Maxiumum", we're preserving the typo like a museum piece, no cap)
๐ PLUGINS: 2dimage/io ๐
ok these are all the file-type besties this program can talk to, and what they're serving:
bmpโ BMP 2D-image input/output support. The plug-in supports reading and writing of binary images and 8-bit gray scale images. read-only support is provided for 4-bit gray scale images. The color table is ignored and the pixel values are taken as literal gray scale values. ๐ผ๏ธ- Recognized file extensions:
.BMP,.bmp - Supported element types:
- binary data, unsigned 8 bit
- Recognized file extensions:
datapoolโ Virtual IO to and from the internal data pool ๐- Recognized file extensions:
.@
- Recognized file extensions:
dicomโ 2D image io for DICOM ๐ฅ- Recognized file extensions:
.DCM,.dcm - Supported element types:
- signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit
- Recognized file extensions:
exrโ a 2dimage io plugin for OpenEXR images ๐- Recognized file extensions:
.EXR,.exr - Supported element types:
- unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit
- Recognized file extensions:
jpgโ a 2dimage io plugin for jpeg gray scale images ๐ท- Recognized file extensions:
.JPEG,.JPG,.jpeg,.jpg - Supported element types:
- unsigned 8 bit
- Recognized file extensions:
pngโ a 2dimage io plugin for png images ๐ฆ- Recognized file extensions:
.PNG,.png - Supported element types:
- binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit
- Recognized file extensions:
rawโ RAW 2D-image output support ๐ง- Recognized file extensions:
.RAW,.raw - Supported element types:
- binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit, signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64 bit
- Recognized file extensions:
tifโ TIFF 2D-image input/output support ๐๏ธ- Recognized file extensions:
.TIF,.TIFF,.tif,.tiff - Supported element types:
- binary data, unsigned 8 bit, unsigned 16 bit, unsigned 32 bit
- Recognized file extensions:
vistaโ a 2dimage io plugin for vista images ๐- Recognized file extensions:
.-,.V,.VISTA,.v,.vista - Supported element types:
- binary data, signed 8 bit, unsigned 8 bit, signed 16 bit, unsigned 16 bit, signed 32 bit, unsigned 32 bit, floating point 32 bit, floating point 64 bit
- Recognized file extensions:
๐ง EXAMPLE ๐ง
Store the third image in multiimage.v to image.v (note: counting starts with zero). โ ๏ธ
mia-2dimageselect -i multiimage.v -o image.v -n 2
lowkey the "counting starts with zero" part is the whole plot twist here. -n 2 is the third image. the math is mathing, bestie ๐งฎ๐
๐ AUTHOR(s) ๐
Gert Wollny
๐ COPYRIGHT ๐
This software is Copyright (c) 1999โ2015 Leipzig, Germany and Madrid, Spain. It comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY and you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (or later). For more information run the program with the option --copyright.
and that's the whole thing, bestie ๐ซถ this page came from the USER COMMANDS section, v2.4.7, and yeah it's dated like that because legacy software is eternal, we respect the elders ๐ go select your image, you absolute main character ๐โจ๐ธ
๐ฆ where this page comes from
- debian bookworm: mia-tools 2.4.7-11+b1 ยท GPL-3.0-or-later
- ubuntu resolute: mia-tools 2.4.7-18 ยท GPL-3.0-or-later
- ubuntu stonking: mia-tools 2.4.7-19build1 ยท GPL-3.0-or-later
- ๐ girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms