XINE(5)                                                                                                                  XINE(5)



NAME
       xine - a free video player

MRL (media resource locator)
       MRLs are similar to URLs in your web browser. They describe the media to read from. Valid MRLs may be plain file names or
       one of the following (see also the notes below):

       o Filesystem:
              file:<path>
              fifo:<path>
              stdin:/

       o CD and DVD:
              dvd:/[device_name][/title[.part]]
              dvd:/DVD_image_file[/title[.part]]
              dvd:/DVD_directory[/title[.part]]
                   (use the path of the directory which contains VIDEO_TS)
              vcd://[CD_image_or_device_name][@[letter]number]
              vcdo://track_number
              cdda:/[device][/track_number]

       o Video devices:
              v4l://[tuner_device/frequency]
              v4l2://tuner_device
              dvb://channel_number
                   (nth channel in your channels.conf)
              dvb://channel_name
              dvbc://channel_name:tuning_parameters
              dvbs://channel_name:tuning_parameters
              dvbt://channel_name:tuning_parameters
              dvba://channel_name:tuning_parameters
              pvr:/tmp_files_path!saved_files_path!max_page_age
                   (for WinTV PVR 250 and 350)

       o Network:
              http://host...
              tcp://host[:port]
              udp://host[:port[?iface=interface]]
              rtp://host[:port[?iface=interface]]
                   (default port for tcp, udp and rtp is 7658)
              smb://...
              mms://host...
              pnm://host...
              rtsp://host...  (requires Real codecs)

       Additional input plugins will provide additional MRL types. The ones listed above are available with stock libxine.

       NOTE: where a file name is required, the full path must be provided - from a shell, you can normally use  "$PWD/file"  or
       "$(pwd)/file"  or  "`pwd`/file" if the file is in the current directory. (Which one depends on your shell; all three work
       in bash. Also, normal URL encoding rules apply; `%', in particular, must be encoded as `%25'.)

       As of xine-lib 1.1.3, the DVD title number may be 0 (select navigation) and the chapter number may be 0 (full title).


   VCD MRL Syntax
       A simple vcd:/ runs the default item (e.g. perhaps track 1 or entry 0) using the default VCD device (perhaps /dev/cdrom).
       Both the default item and default device are user-configurable.

       It is however also possible to specify both Video CD device/filename and item explicitly in the MRL.

       For  example  vcd:/dev/dvd specifies the default entry using device /dev/dvd which might useful if this is your DVD which
       is different than your CD-ROM device and your DVD drive can play CD's. And  vcd://test_svcd_ntsc.cue  specifies  the  cue
       file for CD image on disk.  (test_svcd_ntsc.bin is the corresponding bin file, but using that won't work.)

       After  the  optional device name or file name, you can name the kind of unit, preceded by a colon. An MRL which ends in a
       colon is like not adding it at all: the default entry type and number  is  used.  Items  come  in  4  flavours:  "Track",
       "Entry",  "Playback"  and "Segment". These units are indicated with the capital first letter of each type: T, E, P, S, s.
       An uppercase S in the MRL display indicates a NTSC segment while a lowercase s indicates a PAL  segment.   However,  when
       you enter an MRL, the case of these letters is insignificant.

       Depending  on  the  Video  CD, you might not have any playable segments (S,s) or playback control (P).  If you give a MRL
       that refers to a playback control entry but there is no playback control, your playback number will silently be converted
       into the corresponding entry number.

       You  can  configure  various  things  that  affect  MRLs  are  selected  when  there  is  some ambiguity in the MRL name.
       media.vcd.autoplay sets what kind of unit to to  use  in  a  MRL  is  none  is  given.   Another  configuration  setting,
       vcd.device,  determines what device to use if that part is not given.  When you hit the VCD button, that is equivalent to
       entering vcd:/ and thus these two configuration settings are used to expand the MRL.

       Some examples of MRLs are given below. In the examples, we assume the following configuration settings:


       vcd:// Play (navigate) default item (in this case Entry ID 0) from the default device (in this case set to /dev/cdrom)

       vcd://@
              Same as above

       vcd:///dev/cdrom@
              Same effect as above since the default device is set to /dev/cdrom.

       vcd:///dev/cdrom@E0
              Same as above. But note that this is because we have autoplay:entry which is no longer the default value.

       vcd:///dev/cdrom2@
              Play (navigate) the default item of /dev/cdrom2

       vcd:///dev/cdrom2
              should be same as above but is currently broken?

       vcd:///dev/cdrom2@T1
              Play Track 1 from /dev/cdrom2

       vcd:///dev/cdrom@S1
              Play segment 1 from /dev/cdrom. This assumes that there *is* a segment 1.  Check the MRL list to see  if  that  is
              the case.

       vcd://@P1
              Play  playlist  item  1  from  default  device.  If  there  is no playback control, the MRL will be converted into
              vcd:/@E0.  Again check the MRL list to see if there is a P1.

       vcd://@P1*
              Probably same as above.

       vcd:///dev/cdrom@E1
              Play Entry id 1 from default device.

       vcd://@S0
              Play segment 0 from default device.

       vcd://@3
              Play track 3 from default device.

       vcd:///dev/cdrom2:1
              Play track 1 from /dev/cdrom2.

       vcd:///tmp/ntsc.cue@
              Play default item (E0) of /tmp/ntsc.bin. Note trailing @.

       vcd://ntsc.cue/@E0
              Play entry 0 of ntsc.bin.

       vcd:///tmp/ntsc.nrg/@E0
              Play entry 0 of /tmp/ntsc.nrg (Nero file). Works for some simple Nero images.

   DVB
       DVB MRLs require that ~/.xine/channels.conf exists and contains valid data.  This can be obtained by generating a  tuning
       file using the LinuxTV DVB apps utility "scan" (or "dvbscan" if you're using a version newer than 1.1.0):

       scan -o zap /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-PontopPike >~/.config/xine-lib/channels.conf

       (This example is for the writer's local transmitter, using a file from the Debian dvb-utils package.)

       For the dvbc, dvbs and dvbt MRLs, tuning parameters are expected, taking one of the following forms:

       DVB-S  <frequency>:<polarisation>:<sat-no>:<sym-rate>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>

       DVB-C  <frequency>:<inversion>:<sym-rate>:<fec>:<qam>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>

       DVB-T  <frequency>:<inversion>:<bw>:<fec-hp>:<fec-lp>:<qam>:<transmission-mode>:<guardlist>:<hierarchy-
              info>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>

       DVB-A  <frequency>:<qam>:<vpid>:<apid>:<service-id>

       The individual parameters are:

       frequency           number, usually in kHz

       polarisation        `v' or `h'

       sat-no              unsigned long, usually 0

       sym-rate            symbol rate in MSyms/sec

       inversion           INVERSION_ON, INVERSION_OFF, INVERSION_AUTO

       fec, fec-hp, fec-lp FEC_1_2, FEC_2_3, FEC_3_4 ... FEC_8_9, FEC_AUTO, FEC_NONE

       qam                 QPSK, QAM_128, QAM_16 ...

       bw                  BANDWIDTH_6_MHZ, BANDWIDTH_7_MHZ, BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ

       transmission-mode   TRANSMISSION_MODE_2K, TRANSMISSION_MODE_8K

       guardlist           GUARD_INTERVAL_1_4, GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8, GUARD_INTERVAL_1_16, GUARD_INTERVAL_1_32,

       hierarchy-info      HIERARCHY_1, HIERARCHY_2, HIERARCHY_4, HIERARCHY_NONE

       vpid                video program ID

       apid                audio program ID

       service-id          service ID (needed for now/next information etc.)

       The following keyboard & mouse inputs may be accepted:

       Menu 2                  Start/stop recording

       Menu 3                  Toggle zoom

       Menu 7                  Toggle now/next display

       Previous/Next Chapter   Previous/next channel

       Mouse wheel & button 1  Scroll through channel list & select the highlighted channel

SUBTITLE
       external subtitle files (any mrl)
       Text subtitle files may be appended to the MRL:.

       <mrl>#subtitle:<subtitlefile>
              This is the normal way to define the subtitle file to use. The frontend will not take any notice of  the  subtitle
              file. For example:
              file://home/user/wibble.mpg#subtitle:/home/user/wibble.sub
              (Note that some front ends can detect subtitles files where the name differs as shown in the example.)

STREAM OPTIONS
       After a delimiting # you can add several stream parameters:

       novideo
              Video will be ignored.

       noaudio
              Audio will be ignored.

       nospu  Subpictures will be ignored.

       demux:<demux name>
              Specify the demux plugin to use.

       volume:<level>
              Set audio volume.

       compression:<level>
              Set audio dynamic range compression.

       <config entry>:<config value>
              Assign a new value to any config entry.

       save:<file>
              Save  the  stream  (if  allowed)  to  the  named  file,  relative to the directory given by the option "media.cap-
              ture.save_dir".

       change configuration option 'on the fly':
              You can change a configuration option at any time, using the special cfg:/ MRL style. The syntax is:
                   cfg:/<config entry> : <config value>
              Unlike stream config option, you can change anything before playing the stream.


SEE ALSO
       xine(1), aaxine(1), gxine(1), toxine(1), totem(1), kaffeine(1) ...

       The programs are documented fully on the xine home page: http://www.xine-project.org/ <http://www.xine-project.org/>;

AUTHOR
       This text was extracted from the xine man page by Darren Salt <dsaltATusers.net>.  The xine man page was writ-
       ten   by   Siggi   Langauf   <siggiATdebian.org>   for   the   xine   project.   Lots  of  additions  by  Guenter  Bartsch
       <guenterATusers.net>, Daniel Caujolle-Bert <f1rmbATusers.net>, Rocky  Bernstein  <rockyATpanix.com>,
       and Philipp Hahn <pmhahnATusers.net>.



The xine project                                           2005-06-15                                                    XINE(5)