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diff --git a/doc/man/en/xine.5 b/doc/man/en/xine.5 index 43768f8a1..acf1b5109 100644 --- a/doc/man/en/xine.5 +++ b/doc/man/en/xine.5 @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ xine \- a free video player .SH MRL (media resource locator) MRLs are similar to URLs in your web browser. They describe the media -to read from. Valid MRLs may be plain file names or one of the following: +to read from. Valid MRLs may be plain file names or one of the following +(see also the notes below): .TP \(bu Filesystem: .br @@ -79,8 +80,9 @@ to read from. Valid MRLs may be plain file names or one of the following: .br .LP \fBNOTE:\fP where a file name is required, the \fIfull path must be -provided\fP - from a shell, you can use \fB$PWD/file\fP if the file -is in the current directory. +provided\fP - from a shell, you can use \fB"$PWD/file"\fP or +\fB"$(pwd)/file"\fP or \fB"\`pwd\`/file"\fP if the file is in the current +directory. (Which one depends on your shell; all three work in bash.) Several MRLs may be specified in order to play a number of consecutive streams. Additional input plugins will provide additional MRL types. The ones @@ -188,11 +190,12 @@ Play entry 0 of /tmp/ntsc.nrg (Nero file). Works for some simple Nero images. .br .SS DVB .PP -DVB MRLs require that ~/.xine/channels.conf exists and contains valid data. +DVB MRLs require that xine-lib/channels.conf exists in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ or +~/.config/ and contains valid data. This can be obtained by generating a tuning file using the LinuxTV DVB apps utility "scan" (or "dvbscan" if you're using a version newer than 1.1.0): .PP -.B scan -o zap /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-PontopPike +.B scan -o zap /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-t/uk-PontopPike >~/.config/xine-lib/channels.conf .PP (This example is for the writer's local transmitter, using a file from the Debian dvb-utils package.) |