mms

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Langue: en

Version: 12.2.2007 (mandriva - 01/05/08)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

mms - a complete multimedia suite

SYNOPSIS

mms [ --help ] [ -c file ] [ -d ] [ -b ] [ -r file ] [ -w file ] [ -i type ] [ -o type ]

DESCRIPTION

MMS offers a complete media-suite for having easy access to music, radio, video, pictures and games from harddisk or cd/dvd. Various input- and outputdevices makes it even versatile.

For output you have the choice between sdl, dvb, dxr3 and fbdev. The input may be realised with keyboard, lirc oder evdev.

OPTIONS

--help
Offers a short help and description of the commandline options and gives an overview of compiled-in input- and outputdevices.
-c <configfile> (absolute path)
Sets an alternate config-file
-d
Starts MMS as daemon for background usage.
-b
Fastest possible playback of given commands for benchmarking purposes. Needs -i replay and -r <replayfile> to work.
-r <replayfile> (relative path)
Uses a given replayfile as input. Recorded commands are played back. Use this for automation or benchmarking. Needs -i replay to be set.
-w <replayfile> (relative path)
Records input-commands to the given replayfile.
-i <input>
Sets the input device apart from the default given in the config file. Possible devices are keyboard, lirc or evdev, depending on how MMS was compiled.
-o <outputdevice>
Sets the output device apart from the default given in the config file. Possible devices are sdl, dvb, dxr3 and fbdev, depending on how MMS was compiled.

INTERACTIVE CONTROL

MMS is controlable with a few simple keys (if set to keyboard as input). Possible controls are keyboard, joystick (evdev) or remote control (working LIRC-configuration needed). The relevant keys for rudimentary keyboard-control as starting point are decribed here.
keyboard control
<- and ->
UP and DOWN
Navigation.
Enter
Choose an item or enter a folder.
End
Goes back or leaves a menu/function.
Home
Switches to playlist and back.
Backspace
Clears the current playlist.
Del
Removes highlighted title from playlist.
PGUP and PGDOWN
Jumps pagewise up or down.
Space
Opens the 'Second Action' menu. This menu gives you the opportunity to control all functions within MMS and see assigned controls.

FILES

The config files for MMS are placed in /etc/mms and /var/lib/mms
 config
Here you setup all relevant parameters for the usage of MMS
 input-*
Depending on what you choose as input (ex. input-keyboard)you can configure the used keys as you like.
 /var/lib/mms
MMS stores some more relevant file here, which may take a long time to rebuild at runtime. These are playlists, movie-infos and mp3-tags.

SEE ALSO

For further documentation or information (wiki, forum) see mms.kicks-ass.org

AUTHOR

Anders Rune Jensen anders@gnulinux.dk