---
name: "rawplay"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "smilutils"
version: "0.3.2+cvs20070731-4.2"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/rawplay"
---

# rawplay(1)

Play DV streams and files

## NAME

rawplay - Play DV streams and files

## SYNOPSIS

**rawplay** \[ **options** \] \[ **file** ... \]

## DESCRIPTION

The main motivation for this application is to provide a cross platform, optimal playback mechanism of DV content. As such, It uses SDL for rendering the audio and video.

**rawplay** plays raw dv streams or kino smil projects and compatible file formats.  Typically, it takes a hefty processor (1ghz or more) to render all frames, but rawdv  will drop image rendering on slower machines. This makes it ideal for previewing  streams directly from firewire hardware. It will show video with the correct aspect ratio when using accelerated video rendering, provides full screen  functionality, audio muting and basic transport functionality when used with  file input.

## HELP OPTIONS

- **--help**

  Show help message.

## BUGS

Will build but not run on OSX due to C++ name mangling of main which prevents the SDLmain.h main-\>SDL\_main mapping.

## SEE ALSO

[**smilutils**(1)](/smilutils/1.md)

## AVAILABILITY

See http://kino.schirmacher.de/ for the latest version.

## AUTHORS

**rawplay** was written by Charles Yates \<charles.yates@pandora.be\>.