aatv - a program to watch TV in a text-based console

aatv [options]

aatv is a small program which allows you to watch TV in a text-based console, i.e. in a virtual console or in an xterm.

If you just want to see what it does, and don't want to mess with frequencies just tune your TV card, with xawtv(1) for example, and then launch aatv. When aatv starts, it keeps the frequency the card is tuned on. You might have to change the video mode (to PAL, NTSC or SECAM) in the config file.

Keys:

q Quit the program.

c Switch from TV to composite, or from composite to TV.

s Change video mode (PAL, SECAM, NTSC).

v Flip image.

b Show the frequency, you may then press enter or type a new value.

AA image controls:

f Turn ON/OFF fast rendering.

a No dithering.

e Dithering mode 1.

r Dithering mode 2.

p Show the contrast value, you may then press enter or type a new value.

m Decreases the contrast.

! Increases the contrast.

'o', 'l', ':': Do the same with brightness.

Tuner image controls:

'i', 'k', ';': Contrast.

'u', 'j', ',': Brightness.

'y', 'h', 'n': Whiteness.

A summary of options is included below.

For a complete description type aatv -help.

-help Show summary of options.

-driver

Select driver. Available drivers: linux, slang, X11, stdout and stderr.

-kbddriver

Select keyboard driver. Available drivers: slang, X11 and stdin.

-mousedriver

Select mouse driver. Available drivers: X11, gpm and dos.

-width

Set width.

-height

Set height.

-minwidth

Set minimum width.

-minheight

Set minimum height.

-maxwidth

Set maximum width.

-maxheight

Set maximum height.

-recwidth

Set recommended width.

-recheight

Set recommended height.

-dim

Enable usage of dim (half bright) attribute.

-bold

Enable usage of bold (double bright) attribute.

-reverse

Enable usage of reverse attribute.

-normal

Enable usage of normal attribute.

-boldfont

Enable usage of boldfont attribute.

-no<attr>

Disable an attribute (e.g. -nobold).

-extended

Use all 256 characters.

-eight

Use eight bit ASCII.

-font <font>

Select font. This option is used on hardware where aalib is unable to determine the current font. Available fonts: vga8, vga9, mda14, vga14, X8x13, X8x16, X8x13bold, vgagl8 and line.

-inverse

Enable inverse rendering.

-noinverse

Disable inverse rendering.

-bright <val>

Set brightness (0-255).

-contrast <val>

Set contrast (0-255).

-gamma <val>

Set gamma correction value (0-1).

-nodither

Disable dithering.

-floyd_steinberg

Floyd Steinberg dithering.

-error_distribution

Error distribution dithering.

-random <val>

Set random dithering value (0-inf).

-dimmul <val>

Multiply factor for dim attribute (5.3).

-boldmul <val>

Multiply factor for bold attribute (2.7).

~/.aatv

The per-user configfile of aatv.

/etc/aatv.conf

The system-wide aatv configfile. It's used if no ~/.aatv is found.

Please report any bugs you find to Mike Jagdis <jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk>.

aatv is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL).

xawtv(1), fbtv(1).

Florent de Lamotte <florent@lamotte.as>.

This manual page was written by Uwe Hermann <uh1763@hermann-uwe.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

The OPTIONS section of this manpage was ripped from the bb(1) manpage by Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org> and was slightly improved by Uwe Hermann <uh1763@hermann-uwe.de>.