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.capture.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
       <dsalt@users.sourceforge.net>.  The xine man page was written by Siggi
       Langauf <siggi@debian.org> for the xine project.  Lots of additions by
       Guenter Bartsch <guenter@users.sourceforge.net>, Daniel Caujolle-Bert
       <f1rmb@users.sourceforge.net>, Rocky Bernstein <rocky@panix.com>, and
       Philipp Hahn <pmhahn@users.sourceforge.net>.



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