PLAYMPEG(1)

✨ NAME ✨

plaympeg — the MPEG audio (MP3) and video (MPEG-1) player, bestie 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

plaympeg [options] file ...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so plaympeg is literally an MPEG audio and video player, and it runs on the SDL MPEG Player Library. It can play back MPEG audio (layer 1, 2 and 3), MPEG video (MPEG-1) and MPEG system files (that's audio and video combined, iconic behavior 💅).

but bestie… MPEG-2 video files (as found on DVDs) are NOT supported. not even a little bit. no cap. 😭

The video player works best on a 16 bit color depth X11 display ✨. It still works on other color depths, just with reduced speed — so like, it's giving "works but slower," you know? And heads up: you'll need a CPU with 300 MHz or more to play back an MPEG system stream with 25 frames per seconds (fps) at full speed 🔥. that's the vibe check your processor has to pass, fr fr.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — shows a short usage info moment. the little "here's how you use me" ✨
• --noaudio — don't play the audio stream (if available). silent mode activated 🙈
• --novideo — don't play the video stream (if available). just vibes, no pictures 🎀
• --fullscreen — play the MPEG video stream in fullscreen mode 🌈 (this requires root privileges or a setuid plaympeg binary, so like, it's not just casually free)
• -2, --double — play the MPEG video stream at double size 👑 big screen energy
• -l, --loop — play the stream (audio or video) over and over again 🔁 obsessed with it, can't stop, won't stop
• -v N, --volume N — set the volume of the audio stream to N% (N in the range of 0 to 100) 🍓
• -s S, --scale S — play the MPEG video stream at S size 🧚

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

SMPEG home page at http://www.lokigames.com/development/smpeg.php3 — go click it bestie, iykyk 💜

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

The SDL MPEG Player Library was written by Karl Robillard and Sam Lantinga of Loki Entertainment Software. Please report any bugs and/or fixes to smpeg@lokigames.com — they wanna hear it, fr fr 🫶

This manual page was written by Stefan Gybas <sgybas@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but may be used elsewhere under the GPL ⭐

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💀 it's plaympeg(1) from the General Commands Manual — the PLAYMPEG(1) section, periodt 💅 slay, go play some files 🌈✨💖