lives (1)

NAME

LiVES - LiVES is a Video Editing System

SYNOPSIS

lives <video_file> <start_time> <frames> [ -help ] [ -version ] [ -set setname | -noset ] [ -nogui ] [ -aplayer ap ] [ -jackopts opts ] [ -norecover | -recover ] [ -oscstart port | -nooscstart ] [ -devicemap mapfile ]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the lives command.

LiVES lets you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. LiVES will let you start creating your own tools, utilities and effects via the built in RFX builder.

OPTIONS

-help Show all commandline options and exit

-version

Print the version, copyright and licensing details, and exit

-set setname

Start up lives and autoload set setname

-noset

Do not load any set on startup

-nogui

Do not show the GUI (experimental)

-aplayer ap

Start with selected audio player. ap can be mplayer, sox or jack. Note: This sets the audio player permanently. You can change it in preferences.

-jackopts opts

opts is a bitmap of jack startup options [1 = jack transport client, 2 = jack transport master, 4 = start jack transport server, 8 = pause audio when video paused, 16 = start jack audio server] Note: jackopts are temporary, only for this instance. You need to set them in Preferences if you want to make permanent changes.

-norecover

Force no loading of crash recovery

-recover

Force loading of crash recovery (if present)

-oscstart port

Start OSC listener on UDP port port if LiVES is compiled with OSC support

-nooscstart

Do not start OSC listener

-devicemap mapfile

Load in device mapping file mapfile at startup

SEE ALSO

mplayer(1), ImageMagick(1), ffmpeg(1).

AUTHOR

lives was written by Gabriel "Salsaman" Finch.

This manual page was originally written by G[:u]rkan Seng[:u]n <gurkan@phys.ethz.ch>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). This man page has been updated by Gabriel "Salsaman" Finch <salsaman@xs4all.nl> and Harry Rickards <harry@linux.com>