ola_recorder(1)

✨ ola_recorder — the manual page, but make it cute ✨

okay bestie, so this is ola_recorder, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section 1. she's the girl who records a whole bunch of universes to a file for a show, or plays back a show you already recorded. like a DVR but for DMX. iconic behaviour fr fr 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

ola_recorder — record to, or playback from, a file a number of universes for a show 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ola_recorder [--record <file> --universes <universe_list>] [--playback
<file>] [--verify <file>]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

ola_recorder records a series of universes, or plays back a previously recorded show. that's the whole vibe. record it, replay it, periodt. ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -d, --delay <uint32_t> — the delay in ms between successive iterations. tiny lil pause, yk?
• -h, --help — shows you the help message 🫶
• -i, --iterations <uint32_t> — how many times to repeat the show. set it to 0 and it means unlimited — she literally never stops 💀
• -l, --log-level <int8_t> — sets the logging level, 0 .. 4
• -p, --playback <string> — the show file to playback
• -r, --record <string> — the show file to record data to
• -u, --universes <string> — a comma separated list of universes to record
• --verify <string> — the show file to verify
• -v, --version — prints ola_recorder version information
• --duration <uint32_t> — the length of time, in seconds, to run for
• --syslog — send to syslog rather than stderr
• --no-use-epoll — disables the use of epoll(), reverts to select() 🙈
• --no-use-kqueue — disables the use of kqueue(), reverts to select() 🙈
• --scheduler-policy <policy> — the thread scheduling policy, one of {fifo, rr}
• --scheduler-priority <priority> — the thread priority, only used if --scheduler-policy is set

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

🍓 Record universes 1 and 2 to the file foo:

ola_recorder --universes 1,2 --record foo

🧚 Verify the previously recorded file bar:

ola_recorder --verify bar

💜 Playback the previously recorded file baz for 30 seconds:

ola_recorder --playback baz --duration 30

⭐ Playback the previously recorded file baz for 3 iterations:

ola_recorder --playback baz --iterations 3

🔥 Playback the previously recorded file baz, repeating forever:

ola_recorder --playback baz --iterations 0

okay that's the whole page, you ate that. this was ola_recorder(1) from December 2013, bestie — go record something iconic 💅✨🎀