PLAY_CELL(1)

📦 version 0.99.2, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💿 PLAY_CELL(1) — the vamps girlies' guide

okay so bestie, we're in the vamps corner of the manual, section 1 (that's the "run me from a shell" section, iykyk), and today's main character is a lil program called play_cell. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

play_cell — a DVD cell player for vamps. that's it, that's the vibe. she plays cells off your DVD. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

play_cell dvd-dev vts pgc cell

four little arguments, no flags, no chaos. she ate and left no crumbs.

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

so like, technically these are arguments bestie, positional ones, you just hand them over in this exact order. no dashes, no --help energy, we're raw-dogging the command line here. 🙈

  • dvd-dev — this is the DVD device that's holding your DVD, the actual hardware path. think stuff like /dev/dvd, /dev/hdc, ... you know, wherever your disc is living. pop that in and she'll go look there. 🌈
  • vts — this picks the Video TitleSet you wanna use. a VTS is basically a lil squad of consecutively numbered VOB files hanging out with their matching BUP and IFO files. for example: VTS3 = VTS_03_1.VOB, VTS_03_2.VOB, ..., VTS_03_0.BUP, VTS_03_0.IFO. see how they all match? iconic group-chat naming convention, honestly. ⭐
  • pgc — sets the pgc of the DVD to use. yeah. that one. 👑
  • cell — sets the cell (ID) unit to use. and listen, a cell is the smallest video unit on a DVD — literally the baby of the DVD hierarchy. usually one cell contains one chapter, but it can also be used to hold something even smaller (for example when you've got multiangles branching going on). so she's tiny but she matters. 🍓

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Claudio Moratti <maxer@knio.it> for the Debian system (but it may be used by others too, she's generous like that). this document is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 and later. 🫶

okay and that's the whole page bestie!! no cap, you now know everything this manpage knows. this was version 0.98, dated 2005-12-08, from the Vamps era — a genuine vintage icon, we love her, we respect her, periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋

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