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author | Christian Pointner <equinox@spreadspace.org> | 2014-10-08 02:05:56 +0200 |
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committer | Christian Pointner <equinox@spreadspace.org> | 2014-10-08 02:08:55 +0200 |
commit | 4308491c94ea7cf7ec0c8fa2714626e8c6702b4a (patch) | |
tree | 708a2dc1353a35202db07dbebf5c5c57ce95dbb6 /doc/sydra-launch.8 | |
parent | fixed sydra-launch (diff) |
add manpage for sydra-launch
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diff --git a/doc/sydra-launch.8 b/doc/sydra-launch.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8f3135 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/sydra-launch.8 @@ -0,0 +1,153 @@ +'\" t +.\" Title: sydra-launch +.\" Author: [see the "AUTHORS" section] +.\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.78.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/> +.\" Date: 10/08/2014 +.\" Manual: \ \& +.\" Source: \ \& +.\" Language: English +.\" +.TH "SYDRA\-LAUNCH" "8" "10/08/2014" "\ \&" "\ \&" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +sydra-launch \- tool to start gst\-launch style pipelines +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.sp +.nf +sydra\-launch + [ \fB\-h|\-\-help\fR ] + [ \fB\-D|\-\-nodaemonize\fR ] + [ \fB\-u|\-\-username\fR <username> ] + [ \fB\-g|\-\-groupname\fR <groupname> ] + [ \fB\-C|\-\-chroot\fR <path> ] + [ \fB\-P|\-\-write\-pid\fR <filename> ] + [ \fB\-L|\-\-log\fR <target>:<level>[,<param1>[,<param2>[\&.\&.]]] ] + [ \fB\-U|\-\-debug\fR ] + [ \fB\-n|\-\-appname\fR <name> ] + [ \fB\-p|\-\-pipeline\fR <pipeline description> ] +.fi +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.sp +\fBsydra\fR is a toolbox which allows you to set up multiple bidirectional Video/Audio streams from external locations\&. \fBsydra\fR has been written to be used for the Elevate Festival in Graz Austria in order to involve external locations to present themselves at the festival\&. +.sp +This manpage describes \fBsydra\-launch\fR which is basically a gst\-launch equivalent\&. The utility creates and runs a gstreamer pipeline which is configured through command line arguments\&. The syntax for the pipeline description is the same as for gst\-launch\&. The sole purpose of this program is that it allows to set the app\-name which will get used for example by xvimagesink to set the window title\&. This is needed for sydra to tell a tiling window manager where a window should be shown\&. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.sp +The following options can be passed to the \fBsydra\-launch\fR daemon: +.sp +\fBglobal options\fR +.PP +\fB\-D, \-\-nodaemonize\fR +.RS 4 +This option instructs +\fBsydra\-launch\fR +to run in foreground instead of becoming a daemon which is the default\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-u, \-\-username <username>\fR +.RS 4 +run as this user\&. If no group is specified (\fB\-g\fR) the default group of the user is used\&. The default is to not drop privileges\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-g, \-\-groupname <groupname>\fR +.RS 4 +run as this group\&. If no username is specified (\fB\-u\fR) this gets ignored\&. The default is to not drop privileges\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-C, \-\-chroot <path>\fR +.RS 4 +Instruct +\fBsydra\-launch\fR +to run in a chroot jail\&. The default is to not run in chroot\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-P, \-\-write\-pid <filename>\fR +.RS 4 +Instruct +\fBsydra\-launch\fR +to write it\(cqs pid to this file\&. The default is to not create a pid file\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-L, \-\-log <target>:<level>[,<param1>[,<param2>[\&.\&.]]]\fR +.RS 4 +add log target to logging system\&. This can be invoked several times in order to log to different targets at the same time\&. Every target has its own log level which is a number between 0 and 5\&. Where 0 means disabling log and 5 means debug messages are enabled\&. + +The file target can be used more than once with different levels\&. If no target is provided at the command line a single target with the config +\fBsyslog:3,sydra\-launch,daemon\fR +is added\&. + +The following targets are supported: +.PP +\fBsyslog\fR +.RS 4 +log to syslog daemon, parameters <level>[,<logname>[,<facility>]] +.RE +.PP +\fBfile\fR +.RS 4 +log to file, parameters <level>[,<path>] +.RE +.PP +\fBstdout\fR +.RS 4 +log to standard output, parameters <level> +.RE +.PP +\fBstderr\fR +.RS 4 +log to standard error, parameters <level> +.RE +.RE +.PP +\fB\-U, \-\-debug\fR +.RS 4 +This option instructs +\fBsydra\-launch\fR +to run in debug mode\&. It implicits +\fB\-D\fR +(don\(cqt daemonize) and adds a log target with the configuration +\fBstdout:5\fR +(logging with maximum level)\&. In future releases there might be additional output when this option is supplied\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-n, \-\-appname <name>\fR +.RS 4 +This set the application name using +\fIg_set_prgname()\fR\&. It will be used for example by xvimagesink for window title\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-p, \-\-pipeline <pipeline description>\fR +.RS 4 +A gst\-launch\-style description for the pipeline to get started\&. This uses the same syntax as gst\-launch\&. Example: +\fIvideotestsrc ! video/x\-raw,format=I420,width=864,height=480 ! xvimagesink\fR +.RE +.SH "BUGS" +.sp +Most likely there are some bugs in \fBsydra\-launch\fR\&. If you find a bug, please let the developers know at equinox@spreadspace\&.org\&. Of course, patches are preferred\&. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.sp +\fBgst\-launch\fR(1) +.SH "AUTHORS" +.sp +Christian Pointner <equinox@spreadspace\&.org> +.SH "COPYING" +.sp +Copyright (C) 2014 Christian Pointner\&. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version\&. |