Mppsplash man page

NAME

mppsplash - Launch a fun splashy screen of ASCIImatics animations

SYNOPSIS

mppsplash [-a] [-b] [-C] [-c numcycles] [-d] [-j] [-J] [-m] [-p] [-s song] [-u]

NOTE: mppsplash can be run by invoking mpplus [-a] [-b] [-jJ] [-m] [-n num] [-N] [-p] [-R] [-S]

See man mpplus for details on how to front-end mppsplash with mpplus

DESCRIPTION

The mppsplash command plays one of the ASCIImatics animations included in MusicPlayerPlus. It’s a fun demonstration of some of the capabilities of the ASCIImatics library. By default, mppsplash will play a series of animations about MusicPlayerPlus. Command line options can be used to tell mppsplash to play animations for the Julia Set or a Plasma animation as well as play a public domain audio to accompany the ascii art display.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

-a : indicates play audio accompaniment

-b : indicates play alternate audio accompaniment

-c numcycles : specifies the number of times to cycle

-C : indicates use alternate comments in Plasma effect

-d : enabled debug mode

-J : indicates use Julia Set effect and play multiple zooms with different parameters

-j : indicates use Julia Set effect

-m : indicates use MusicPlayerPlus effect

-p : indicates use Plasma effect

-s song : specifies the audio file to use as accompaniment

-u : displays this usage message and exits

Without any options the MusicPlayerPlus effect will repeat

EXAMPLES

mppsplash : Without options mppsplash will play a series of animations about MusicPlayerPlus. These will repeat until the ‘q’ key is pressed.

mppsplash -c 10 : Plays the MusicPlayerPlus ASCIImatics animations 10 times then exits

mppsplash -j -c 5 : Plays the Julia Set ASCIImatics animation 5 times then exits

mppsplash -p : Plays the Plasma ASCIImatics animation in an endless loop until the ‘q’ key is pressed

mppsplash -p -C : Plays the Plasma ASCIImatics animation using alternate comments

mppsplash -a -c 1 : Plays the MusicPlayerPlus ASCIImatics animation for one cycle accompanied by a public domain audio

mppsplash -a -j -s /u/audio/deep.wav : Plays the Julia Set ASCIImatics animation and the audio file /u/audio/deep.wav as accompaniment

AUTHORS

Written by Ronald Record github@ronrecord.com

LICENSING

MPPSPLASH is distributed under an Open Source license. See the file LICENSE in the MPPSPLASH source distribution for information on terms & conditions for accessing and otherwise using MPPSPLASH and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.

BUGS

Submit bug reports online at:

https://github.com/doctorfree/MusicPlayerPlus/issues