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Usage

moovida [OPTION] ... [CONFIG FILE]

Overview

Moovida is an open source cross-platform media center solution designed to be simple for people not particularly familiar with computers. With Moovida you can enjoy:

* Watch your pictures with previews and nicely animated slideshows.

* Watch your movies and video clips as well as online ones.

* Manage your music collection by artists or albums covers.

* Moovida finds automatically medias on your network, from network: drives, Windows Mediaplayer, etc.

* Detects automatically iPods, cameras, USB hard drives, etc.

Moovida runs on the top of the GStreamer multimedia framework and uses the Pigment library for graphical user interaction. You can use it with your mouse, lirc-input device or simply with the keyboard.

Options

--version: Print the version of Moovida.

--twisted-version: Print the version of twisted.

-t, --tracebacks: Output tracebacks on the console output. Disabled by default.

-l, --log: Log the output to the given file.

--shell: Open an interactive shell of the Moovida environment in the terminal.

--headless: Start Moovida in headless mode.

--force-startup: Start even when another instance is running.

-f, --fullscreen: Start fullscreen (default).

-u, --unfullscreen: Do not start fullscreen.

-n, --nosplash: Do not show the splash schreen on startup.

-i, --import=FILE: Import the given Python file and run it in the Moovida environment (used by Windows only).

-c, --config-file=FILE: Use the specified configuration file instead of the default one.

--rss=URL: Start Moovida with a specific URL of an RSS feed.

--help: Show usage information and exit.

Keyboard control

To navigate through the menus, Moovida reacts on key presses:

Basic keys: Left/Right/Up/Down
Move left/right/up/down
f or Escape
Toggle fullscreen mode
Enter
Activate/open selected item
Backspace
Go back

Menu hidden and player active: Left or v
Seek backward
Right or b
Seek forward
Up/Down
Volume up/down
Enter
Toggle play/pause
x
Previous track of playlist
c
Next track of playlist

List menu mode: Up/Down
Navigate in the current menu level
Right
Go in the "More Options" menu if there's one. If there's no such menu
you in fact go to the top context bar.
Enter
Call the default action on the selected item (ex: play the movie if you are in a movie list)
Backspace
Go to previous menu

Grid menu mode

The user can navigate in the 4 directions (up, down, left, right) using the direction keys (Left/Right/Up/Down). When the first row of the grid is reached, the user can enter the top context bar by hitting Up key once more. When the last row of the grid is reached, the user can enter the grid context bar by hitting Down key once more.

Navigation inside the grid context bar is horizontal, use Left/Right keys to navigate in the 3 buttons. To activate a button, press Enter. To leave the context bar, press Up key.

Top context bar: When navigating inside menus, there should always be a context bar available on the top of the window. Navigation inside this bar is horizontal, use Left/Right keys to navigate in the bar buttons. To activate a button, press Enter. To leave the context bar, press Down key.

Files

~/.moovida/moovida.conf

Distribution

The latest version of Moovida may be downloaded from <http://www.moovida.com/>.