subtitles(1)

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✨ subtitles(1) — the General Commands Manual glow-up ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the subtitles era 💅 this little cutie lives in the General Commands Manual and it does exactly one thing but it does it so well: it puts subtitles on your screen inside xawtv. no cap.

🎀 NAME 🎀

subtitles — display subtitles within xawtv.

like. that's the whole job. and she's iconic for it. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

subtitles [ -help | -tty ] <page>

yes queen, that's it. one little <page> and you're cooking. 🌸

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: subtitles goes and fetches the teletext page you asked for, using the alevt-cap utility. then it takes that page and displays it with xawtv-remote — and it does this in an endless loop 🔁 because subtitles don't stop and neither does she.

it's most useful for pages which carry subtitles for the current TV program. like, the whole point. that's the moment. main character energy fr fr.

and if you're in Germany? the page you want is 150. not me knowing that off the top of my head 😭 it's literally page 150 in Germany. periodt.

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

  • -help — prints a short help text. a lil "hi bestie here's what I do" moment. 💜
  • -tty — dumps a copy of the videotext page to the tty. so you get the raw text right there in your terminal, no window needed. slay. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go give these legends some love too:

heads up bestie: the synopsis uses | between -help and -tty, so it's one or the other, not both at once. just saying. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this beauty is (c) 2000 Gerd Knorr — yeah, copyright 2000, she's been serving subtitles since before we were even born and she still ate 💀💖 thank you Gerd, genuinely. mwah. 🎀✨

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