NAME
xatitv - GUI "TV in a Window" application from the GATOS package.
SYNOPSIS
xatitv [options]
DESCRIPTION
Xatitv is the main program shipped with GATOS. It allows GUI access to
all GATOS functionality, save tv-out. The GUI is pretty self-
explanatory, but here are the basics:
- When first run, hit setup and configure format and options, than
do a channel scan.
- Use the three buttons labeled TV, CV and SV to select video
input from TV tuner, Composite Video and SVHS respectively.
- The Adv., Capture and Edit Channel buttons toggle other sections
of the GUI.
- Volume, Brightness, Contrast, Hue and Saturation can be modified
by clicking the mouse at any location along their respective
sliders.
- The Edit Channel GUI can be used to set channel-specific video
and audio settings (if a channel is too bright/dark, too
loud/quiet, etc) and to remove bogus channels. It can also be
used to name a channel so you can later select that channel by
name.
- There are many other feature, look around and tinker with them.
- Most features have keyboard shortcuts:
-Esc Quit.
-Tab/Right-Click
Hide/Show GUI.
-F1-F8 Favorite channels (CTRL+Key to set).
-F9-F12
Output debug info.
-Numbers
Change channel by number.
-Letters/space
Change channel by name.
-Enter/Return
Finish entering item (channel name/number).
-Up/Down
Scroll through settings.
-Left/Right
Change current setting.
-Keypad +/-
Change channel.
-Backspace
Switches to the previous channel that you spent more than
5 seconds at.
-Keypad /
Toggle mute.
-Keypad * or Double-Click
Toggle fullscreen Mode.
- or ~
Toggle closed captioning (CC).
-> and <
Increase/Decrease size of window by a factor of 2.
-Pause Freeze capture on current frame.
-PrintScreen
Capture single frame (Snapshot).
FILE FORMATS
Note, motion capture in xatitv use a special ".yuv" file format unique
to gatos.
Snapshots on the other hand save to ".ppm" files, which are viewable
(and convertible) by most graphics programs.
There is no automatic intelligence in xatitv to select this file’s
extension, so to make sure other programs don’t get confused, always
take snapshots to a ".ppm" file, and capture video to ".yuv" files.
This should be fixed in the next version.
Snapshots to files containing a number (eg: gatos000.ppm) will
automatically increment the number in this filename for the next
snapshot. So after taking a ppm snapshot to gatos000.ppm, xatitv will
capture the next to gatos001.ppm, then gatos002.ppm, etc....
OPTIONS
-pci <pciaddr>
Override PCI address in gatos.conf.
-q Quiet mode (disable messages output).
-v Verbose mode (display many debug infos).
-qv|-vq
Display GATOS and IBTK versions used.
-d<value>
Set verbosity level (no space between d and value).
-nosa Only for testing.
FILES
/etc/gatos.conf - Configuration file of GATOS.
SEE ALSO
gatos, gatos-conf, gatos.conf, atitv, atisplit, atitogif, atitojpg,
yuvsum, scanpci.
AUTHORS
Xatitv was written and copyrighted by Steaphan Greene, Øyvind Aabling,
Octavian Purdila, Vladimir Dergachev, Christian Lupien, and Daniel
Caujolle-Bert.
20 Dec 1999 xatitv(1)