Command Reference

The Video Context Menu
The Video Context Menu can be reached by right clicking inside the video window while a movie is loaded.
Video Information 	Displays a popup with information about the currently loaded movie, including the number of frames, the type of encoding, and its original pixel size.
Open File 	Opens a standard open file dialog box, with predefined filters for the file formats supported by .
Setup 	Opens the Setup dialog, where you can configure 's behavior.
Original Size 	Resizes the window to the original size of the movie. This obviously has no effect unless you've already resized the movie at some point.
Half Size 	Resizes the window to half the original size of the movie.
Double Size 	Resizes the window to double the original size of the movie.
Maximized 	Resizes the window to the maximum size possible to fit on your screen. The movie will maintain its own aspect ratio (that is, the relationship between its height and width) rather than distorting to fit your screen. A tall thin movie will still be a tall thin movie, but now maximized so that the largest dimension matches your screens largest dimension, with the exception of permanent screen features such as the panel.
Full Screen 	Lets take over your screen.
Much more information is available in Full Screen

The Toolbar
The toolbar
Toolbars
The toolbar is displayed along the bottom edge of the window. It contains icons as follows:
Open 	Opens a standard open file dialog box, with predefined filters for the file formats supported by .
Play 	Start playing the movie.
Stop 	Stop playing the movie.
Rewind 	Rewind the movie.
Fast Forward 	Fast Forward the movie.
Setup 	Opens the Setup dialog.
Help 	Opens the help page (this document).
Just above the toolbar, on the right of the window, is a volume slider. This can be used to adjust the volume of the movie, from lower (to the left) to higher (to the right).

The Setup dialog
The Setup dialog contains five main tabs:
Audio
Color
Scaling
Capture
Others
The dialog also contains standard OK and Cancel buttons. Click OK to close the dialog and save all your changes, and click Cancel to close the dialog and discard all your changes.

Setup Audio
This tab contains options relating to audio during movies.
Audio enable 	Enables audio. If this is unchecked, there will be no sound during movies.
Skip frames for audio sync 	Checking this allows to skip over occasional video frames, in order to keep the video and audio synchronised. Enable this if you have a slower machine and find that the video and audio are running at different speeds - often the audio track will finish while the video track is only part way through. There will be a loss of video quality if this is selected, but it will range from imperceptible to almost unwatchable, based mostly on the speed of your machine and how much memory it has.
Show volume slider 	Enable or disable display of the volume slider, above and to the right of the toolbar. This is enabled by default.
Initial volume (0-100) 	Sets the volume at the start of a movie. Changes made on the volume slider will be relative to this level. You may use the spinners to change the value, or type directly in the box.

Setup Color
This tab provides options to configure 's use of color during movies.
Color mapping (non TrueColor displays) 	This section applies only to displays of less than TrueColor (16 bit) If you have problems with colors appearing strangely, try these options.
TrueColor to 322 (static color) 	If selected, will convert movies to the Static322 color map before displaying them.
Color lookup table 	If this item is selected, will create a palette to use as a lookup table. You can select how many frames to look ahead to create the table, but the higher the number you select, the more intense the memory use will be. The default is 5
TrueColor to grayscale 	 will convert the movie to grayscale if this item is selected.
None 	The default is None - will not perform any color mapping. You should only try the other options if you have trouble with colors during movie playback.
Gamma of display: 	Set gamma of display. Gamma values greater than 1.0 typically brighten the animation.

Setup Scaling
This tab contains items relating to the display size of the movie.
Display scale 	Sets the size of the movie, in relation to its original size
You may choose from any of the following values
Original size
Half size
Double size
Maximised
Full Screen
Full screen 	Further options relating to using in full screen mode.
Use XFree86-VidModeExtensions (if available) 	Enables full screen mode. Explained further in the section on Using fullscreen
Grab the mouse 	Takes control of the mouse while in full screen mode.

Setup Capture
allows you to capture or take a snapshot of frames from the movie you are viewing, by simply pressing the key C. This tab contains options relating to this feature.
Output file format 	Choose what format your captures will be saved as. You may choose from the following:
bmp
jpeg
pbm
pgm
png
ppm
xbm
xpm
The default is png
Output file directory: 	Choose where the screen captures will be saved. The default is ~ (your home directory.) You may type a path to a different directory directly in the text box, or you can press the ... to open a file selection dialog and browse to the desired location.

Setup Others
This tab contains other miscellaneous options.
Video Loading 	This section contains options relating to pre-loading of movies. You may choose one of the following:
Preload animation into memory 	Loads the whole animation into your computers memory before it begins to play.
Preload and uncompress animation 	Loads the whole animation into your computers memory, and uncompresses it, before beginning to play it.
Read each sector only when needed 	Performs no preloading, reading each section of the movie from disk as it's needed.
The default is Read each sector only when needed
Use X11 shared memory 	This is unavailable if you chose "Preload and uncompress animation" in the section above.It is deselected by default.
Use X11 multi buffering 	If selected, will use X11 Buffering (if present) to smooth animations by double-buffering. It is selected by default.
Use Pixmap instead of Image in X11 	If selected, will use Pixmap instead of Image in X11shared. This option has no effect if the animation is buffered.
Initial directory 	Set the directory that is shown when you choose to open a new movie. You may type a value directly in the text box, or use the ... button to browse to your preferred location. Of course, this is only the default directory, and you can browse to another location when actually opening movies. By default this is empty, which in most cases results in beginning to look for movies from your home directory.
Loop animation 	If selected, when the movie reaches its end, it will begin over at the start, until you press the Stop button.
Automatically start playing video 	If this is chosen, will begin playing the selected movie as soon as you have selected it. If this is not checked, you will have to press play yourself to start playing the movie.
Extra XAnim parameters 	If you wish to pass any extra parameters to the underlying XAnim application, you may enter them here.