What Runs Where on Athena: Graphics

Title and description:

Applix Graphics
Description: drawing program

To run:

athena% add applix

athena% applix & (select Graphics from * menu)

See also: CorelDRAW, GLE, Star Office Drawing

Title and description:

Applix Presents
Description: presentation graphics program

To run:

athena% add applix

athena% applix & (select Presents icon from * menu)

See also: Applix Graphics, CorelDRAW, Magicpoint, Open Office Presentation Graphics, Star Office Presentation Graphics

Title and description:

bitmap
Description: tool for creating or editing rectangular bitmap images

To run:

athena% bitmap file.xbm &

See also: CorelDRAW, raster

Title and description:

convert (ImageMagick)
Description: utility to convert images between various graphic formats. Other tools in the suite supply various utilities for display and interactive manipulation of images

To run:

athena% convert options infile outfile

selected additional utilities:

animate displays a sequence of images on a workstation running X

composite composites images together

conjure interprets and executes scripts in the Magick Scripting Language

display displays an image on a workstation running X

identify describes the format and characteristics of one or more image files

import capture some or all of an X server screen and save the image to a file

mogrify transforms an image or a sequence of images

montage creates a composite image by combining several images

There is local documentation

See also: DjVu Libre utilities, eog, FWTools, LyX, NetPBM Utilities, raster, xv, xwd

Note:

A version which may be newer is also in the graphics locker

Title and description:

CorelDRAW (old - there will be no future UNIX releases beyond 3.5)
Description: drawing and presentation graphics suite including a graph and chart generator (CorelCHART), a drawing and illustration package (CorelDRAW), a file manager and database for graphics images (CorelMOSAIC), a photorealistic image editor and paint program (CorelPHOTO-PAINT), a presentation generator that links separate images together (CorelSHOW)and a utlity to convert bitmap to vector images (CorelTRACE)

Licenses: we have 25 licenses

To run:

athena% add corel

athena% corelchart &

athena% coreldraw &

athena% corelmosaic &

athena% corelpaint &

athena% coreltrace &

See also: Applix Graphics, Applix Presents, bitmap, gimp, inkscape, Magicpoint, Star Office Drawing, Star Office Presentation Graphics, tgif, Xara LX, xfig, xpaint

Note:

CorelDRAW is only available on Athena Suns, which will be decommissioned by Summer 2009. Please plan to use other applications or purchase a personal license by then

Title and description:

dia
Description: diagram creation program suitable for applications such as flowcharts and circuit diagrams

To run:

athena% add dia

athena% dia &

Author Web site, with documentation

See also: eagle, Electric VLSI, inkscape, ipe, Magic, tgif, Xara LX, xcircuit, xfig, xpaint

Title and description:

DjVu Libre utilities
Description: set of utilities for manipulating DjVu files. DjVu is an image file format that supports high compression ratios, and which includes: good compression for indexed-color images such as screen capture; composition of images via masked layers with different encodings; multiple-page images; interactive retrieval of image regions at adjustable resolution. Among other features, DjVu is good at compressing scanned pages containing text, diagrams, symbols, and images

To run:

athena% add djvu

athena% command options files

Commands include:

Encoding tools: bzz, c44, cjb2, cpaldjvu, csepdjvu

Decoding tools: ddjvu, djvups

Manipulation tools: djvm, djvmcvt, djvudump, djvuextract, djvumake, djvused, djvuserve, djvutxt

UNIX man pages explaining the function of each are accessible after adding the djvu locker (type man command)

Author Web site

See also: convert (ImageMagick), eog, FWTools, NetPBM Utilities, raster, xv

Title and description:

eagle
Description: schematic diagram and circuit board design tool

To run:

athena% add eaglecad

athena% eagle &

Vendor Web site

There is a tutorial and manual

See also: dia, Electric VLSI, gEDA, gerbv, Magic, xcircuit

Note:

the version installed on Athena is a limited free version; more information is here

Title and description:

eog
Description: graphics viewer that can display images and image collections in many native formats (including GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, SVG, XBM, XPM and others)

To run:

athena% eog file &

See also: convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, FWTools, xv

Title and description:

FreeWRL
Description: VRML2/VRML97/X3D file viewer based on specialized Perl scripts- supports a variety of enhancements including animation

To run:

athena% add freewrl

athena% freewrl options file.wrl (to view a file)

athena% freewrl options http://web.mit.edu/sample/file.wrl (to view a URL)

Author Web site; 1.06 usage information is here

There are 2 different, incompatible VRML types- VRML1, or Open Inventor format, viewable on Athena by ivview, and VRML2/VRML97, viewable by freewrl. In order to allow the viewers to be configured for both of these in the same Web bowser, VRML files must have distinct mime types and extensions. For this reason, you should give your VRML1 files a .iv extension, even if you have been using .vrml or .wrl extensions previously. You don't need to change the header line in your VRML files however- if it's similar to #VRML V1.0 ascii you can leave it that way. Conversely, your VRML2 files should have a .wrl or .vrml extension, and a header line similar to #VRML V2.0 utf8

Versions: there is version skew (Linux version is newer)

See also: ac3d, geomview, ivview, orbisnap, pymol, rasmol

Note:

a FreeWRL browser plugin is available, but it only works on Linux machines as of this writing. To use it, type:

setenv MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/freewrl/current/lib/mozilla/plugins

at the Athena prompt.

To configure as a browser helper application, use:

MIME Type: x-world/x-vrml

Description: VRML2/97 viewer

Extension: wrl

Open with: /afs/athena.mit.edu/software/freewrl/current/bin/freewrl

Title and description:

FWTools (openev)
Description: collection of utilities for dealing with GIS image data. openev is an image viewer that can handle multiple image formats (including jpeg2000), and which can filter and process images in a variety of ways. Components include MapServer (Web mapping package), GDAL/OGR (library and set of command-line utilities for reading and writing a variety of geospatial raster (GDAL) and vector (OGR) formats), PROJ.4 (cartographics projections library with associated utilities) and OGDI (multiformat raster and vector reading technology that supports various military formats)

To run:

athena% add fwtools

athena% openev [-h] file (to view file in openev)

athena% program infile outfile (to use program to convert infile to outfile)

There is local openev documentation and an FWTools Web page; man pages for many of the utilities (look in /mit/fwtools/man/man1 directory for their names)

See also: ArcInfo/ArcView, convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, eog, xv

Note:

use of the -h switch (enable hardware OpenGL) may be necessary to work around a bug that can cause a crash on launch

Title and description:

geomview
Description: geomview is an interactive program for viewing 3d objects. Objects can be described by data files in a variety of formats. Once an object is loaded into geomview, the user can interactively move around the scene, looking at objects from all sides; the user can also change visual characterisitcs of the object, such as color and transparency. geomview also has facilities for communicating with external modules provided by users; a number of these are supplied with the distribution

To run:

athena% add geomview

athena% geomview &

External modules: select one from the External Modules pick list in the main window

Author Web site, with documentation, local documentation in html or pdf format; 1.9.3 README and NEWS

See also: ac3d, FreeWRL, ivview, K3DSurf, OpenDX, ParaView, pymol, rasmol, Visualization Toolkit

Note:

crystallography add-on Wulffman has been built and added to the External Module list

Title and description:

gerbv

Description: viewer for Gerber RS-274X files. This is an industry standard format used for designing circuit boards. gerbv also supports drill files. The formats supported are known under names as NC-drill or Excellon. gerbv can load multiple overlays from separate Gerber files, and can output the images it displays in png format

To run:

athena% add gerbv

athena% gerbv [files.grb] &

Author Web site

See also: eagle, electric VLSI, Magic

Note:

gerbv is also available as part of the gEDA suite

Title and description:

gimp
Description: gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, a photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter and others. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plugins and extensions. The advanced scripting interface allows many customized actions to be performed

Versions: there is version skew (Linux version is newer)

To run:

athena% add graphics

athena% gimp &

author Web pages, documentation

See also: coreldraw, Scribus, tgif, xfig, xpaint, xv

Title and description:

GLE
Description: compiler for a language that generates 2d graphs and plots. The GLE translator gle converts files in the GLE source language (.gle files) to printable form (various common image file formats, pdf and PostScript). Does not currently come with a GUI

To run:

athena% add gle

athena% gle -d format file.gle

Author Web site, local documentation is here

See also: Applix Graphics, gnuplot, Star Office Drawing, tgif, xcircuit, xfig, xpaint

Title and description:

GLUT/GLUI
Description: GLUT (OpenGL Utility Toolkit) is a programming interface with ANSI C and FORTRAN bindings for writing window system independent OpenGL programs. The toolkit supports the following functionality: multiple windows for OpenGL rendering; callback driven event processing; sophisticated input devices; an ``idle'' routine and timers; a simple, cascading pop-up menu facility; utility routines to generate various solid and wire frame objects; support for bitmap and stroke fonts; miscellaneous window management functions, including managing overlays. GLUI is a window-system independent C++ interface library that interfaces to GLUT and which provides controls such as buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, spinners and listboxes for OpenGL/GLUT applications

Versions: there is version skew (Linux version is newer)

To run:

athena% add glut

compile with include files below /mit/glut/include, and link against library /mit/glut/lib/libglut.a (Sun) or /mit/glut/lib/libglut.so (Linux)

More detailed information, including instructions for building examples and GLUT demos is in file:

/mit/glut/README.to-run

For information on using GLUI see /mit/glut/glui-2.1b/README.to-run; there is also a GLUI manual

See also: OpenGL

Title and description:

GNU plot utilities (graph)
Description: The GNU plotting utilities consist of seven command-line programs: the graphics programs graph, plot, tek2plot, and plotfont, and the mathematical programs spline, ode, and double. Distributed with these programs is GNU `libplot', the library on which the graphics programs are based. `libplot' is a function library for device-independent two-dimensional vector graphics, including vector graphics animations under the X Window System

To run:

athena% add -f sipb (-f switch needed on Suns)

athena% graph options datafile

Other ways of using these utilities exist. See the file /mit/sipb/info/plotutils.info, in GNU info format for more detailed information

See also: gnuplot, Grace, tgif

Title and description:

inkscape
Description: GUI editor for 2D Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format drawing files, with some capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio. Supported features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, SVG-to-PNG export and grouping. SVG is a W3C standard XML format for 2D vector drawing that allows defining objects in the drawing using points, paths and primitive shapes

To run:

athena% add inkscape

athena% inkscape &

athena% inkview files.svg & (to view a "slide show" in svg format)

There is an inkscape Web page and 0.45 release notes

See also: CorelDRAW, dia, ipe, Magicpoint, Open Office Drawing, Scribus, tgif, Xara LX, xcircuit

Title and description:

ipe
Description: extensible drawing editor that can incorporate text and figures in LaTeX; this allows it to use full LaTeX functionality in the graphics it produces, and makes it easy to incorporate output into LaTeX documents. It can generate encapsulated PostScript and pdf directly, as well as its own native xml format

To run:

athena% add ipe

athena% ipe &

athena% pdftoipe file.pdf (to convert a pdf file to ipe xml format)

There is an ipe Web page and online manual

See also: dia, inkscape, latex, Scribus, tgif, Xara LX, xcircuit

Title and description:

ivview
Description: VRML1/Inventor viewer

To run:

athena% add inventor (Sun, Lnx)

athena% ivview file.iv

See also: ac3d, FreeWRL, geomview, Open Inventor, orbisnap

Note:

to configure as Netscape/Mozilla helper application, use:

MIME Type: application/x-inventor

Description: VRML1/Open Inventor viewer

Extension: iv

Open with: /afs/athena/software/inventor/arch/@sys/bin/ivview

There are 2 different, incompatible VRML types- VRML1, or Open Inventor format, viewable by ivview, and VRML2/VRML97, viewable by freewrl or orbisnap. In order to allow the viewers to be configured for both of these in the same Web bowser, VRML files must have distinct mime types and extensions. For this reason, you should give your VRML1 files a .iv extension, even if you have been using .vrml or .wrl extensions previously. You don't need to change the header line in your VRML files however- if it's similar to #VRML V1.0 ascii you can leave it that way. Conversely, your VRML2 files should have a .wrl or .vrml extension, and a header line similar to #VRML V2.0 utf8

Title and description:

Magicpoint
Description: slide show generator, where "slides" are generated from a text file incorporating presentation data and formatting commands written in internal scripting language. Utilities mgp2ps and mgp2html can be used to convert Magicpoint scripts to PostScript and html repectively

To run:

athena% add magicpoint

athena% mgp file.mgp

There is mgp documentation, mgp2ps documentation

See also: Applix Presents, CorelDRAW, inkscape, Open Office Presentation Graphics, Star Office Presentation Graphics, Xara LX

Title and description:

NetPBM Utilities
Description: large set of utilities to convert images between various graphic formats with some editing capabilities. Conversion is done through several related intermediate formats (pbm, pgm, ppm, pnm)

To run:

athena% add graphics (Sun; not necessary in some cases)

athena% command file (there are too many commands to list individually)

A list of commands along with man pages is here, and some explanatory information is here.

Commands are frequently chained together through a series of pipes

See also: convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, raster, rayshade, xv

Title and description:

Open Inventor, OpenGL
Description: The Open Inventor 3d Toolkit is an object-oriented toolkit that simplifies and abstracts the task of writing graphics programming into a set of objects. OpenGL is a 3d rendering library. It is available in the X window system through the GLX extension. Linux machines support Mesa, an OpenGL clone

To run Open Inventor:

athena% add inventor

athena% ivview file.iv (to view an image in iv scene description format- also know as VRML1)

To set up environment for running demos, and building and running applications:

athena % /mit/inventor/set-demos

athena% SceneViewer -e file.env file.iv (to view a scene with env environment files)

To link against Mesa libraries on Linux machines:

athena% add mesa

compile with include files below /mit/mesa/include, and link against library /mit/mesa/lib/libGL.so (and possibly also additional libraries in same directory)

See file /mit/inventor_v2.1.5.9/examples/README.to-run for instructions for building binaries that link against the Open Inventor libraries; for Linux, see also file README.dynamic_linking in the mesa locker for additional information on building Linux applications that use Mesa

See also books: "The Inventor Mentor", "OpenGL Programming Guide" and "OpenGL Reference Manual"

See also: ac3d, GLUT, ivview, K3DSurf, OpenDX, ParaView, Renderman, Visualization Toolkit

Note:

the ivlib locker contains information and examples of Open Inventor and OpenGL files. A local Web page exists; the information is old but may be useful

Title and description:

Open Office Drawing
Description: drawing component of Open Office office suite- select File -> New -> Drawing

To run:

athena% ooffice &

There is 2.x documentation: Getting Started guide, User Guide and entry point to other manuals; also the openoffice.org support page

See also: Applix Graphics, CorelDRAW, inkscape, Star Office Drawing, tgif, Xara LX

Note:

Open Office is derived from Star Office and corresponding releases of both are very similar

Title and description:

Open Office Presentation Graphics
Description: presentation graphics component of Open Office office suite- select File -> New -> Presentation

To run:

athena% ooffice &

There is 2.x documentation: Getting Started guide, User Guide and entry point to other manuals; also the openoffice.org support page

See also: Applix Presents, CorelDRAW, Magicpoint, Star Office Presentation Graphics

Note:

Open Office is derived from Star Office and corresponding releases of both are very similar

Title and description:

orbisnap
Description: VRML2/VRML97 3d scene viewer with an intuitive user interface; it can manage virtual scene viewpoints, save VRML files, run dynamic animations and connect to a remote server running the Matlab Virtual Reality Toolbox

To run:

athena% add orbisnap

athena% orbisnap file.wrl (to view a file)

athena% orbisnap http://web.mit.edu/sample/file.wrl (to view a URL)

Vendor Web site

There are 2 different, incompatible VRML types- VRML1, or Open Inventor format, viewable on Athena by ivview, and VRML2/VRML97, viewable by orbisnap or other VRML2 viewers. In order to allow the viewers to be configured for both of these in the same Web bowser, VRML files must have distinct mime types and extensions. For this reason, you should give your VRML1 files a .iv extension, even if you have been using .vrml or .wrl extensions previously. You don't need to change the header line in your VRML files however- if it's similar to #VRML V1.0 ascii you can leave it that way. Conversely, your VRML2 files should have a .wrl or .vrml extension, and a header line similar to #VRML V2.0 utf8

See also: FreeWRL, ivview

Title and description:

POV-Ray
Description: Persistence of Vision ray tracer- generates ray-traced images from .pov povray image description files. Generates images in GNU .png format by default

To run:

athena% add povray

athena% povray +I file.pov options

See the POV-Ray Web page, local html documentation, pdf reference manual and tutorial, and locally built demos, and more demos

See also: ac3d, blender, K3DSurf, molden, platon, rayshade, Renderman, xv

Title and description:

pstoedit
Description: utility that allows conversion of PostScript files to a variety of editable formats (tgif, xfig, others)

To run:

athena% add sipb

athena% pstoedit -f format infile.ps outfile

See also: ghostview, gv, tgif, xfig

Title and description:

raster
Description: Andrew system editor for digitized pictures. Raster images can be created by reading in an X Window dump or by using MacPaint on the Mac

To run:

athena% add andrew

athena% raster file.raster

See also: ahelp, convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, ez, NetPBM Utilities, xwd

Title and description:

rayshade
Description: ray-tracing renderer that generates output images in Utah Raster Toolkit (rle) format. rayshade generates an rle image file that can be viewed with the xv image viewer. Input file is ASCII text, consisting of commands in rayshade internal language; in simple cases commands can be input directly on command line ( athena% echo "sphere 2 0 0 0" | rayshade > sphere.rle)

To run:

athena% add rayshade_v4.0

athena% cat file.ray | rayshade > file.rle

There is an online manual in dvi format- see file /mit/rayshade/distrib/Doc/guide.dvi. See also the Rayshade Web page

See also: NetPBM Utilities, POV-Ray, Renderman, xv

Title and description:

Renderman
Description: rendering engine and set of related utilities that can produce image files in a number of formats

Licenses: we have 50 floating licenses

To run:

athena% add renderman

athena% set_renderman

athena% render file

in the xterm that appears

athena% set_demos

to make a copy of some demos and tutorials in a temporary directory (type commands in xterm that appears). Please see README files in /tmp/renderman/examples and /tmp/renderman/tutorial for important configuration information

To use Renderman Artist's Tools:

athena% source /mit/renderman/set-environment

followed by one of:

athena% alfred

athena% it &

athena% slim &

There is an online manual, tutorial

See also: Maya, Open Inventor, POV-Ray, rayshade, Visualization Toolkit, xv

Note:

Renderman Artist's Tools are designed to interface to Maya. They are not very useful without this application

Title and description:

Scribus
Description: page layout application that can export directly to pdf. It is fully compliant with recent pdf standards

To run:

athena% add scribus

athena% scribus &

There is a home page, wiki, review article and documentation site. Local 1.3.3.11 information is here

See also: Acrobat, FrameMaker, gimp, inkscape, ipe, latex, Xara LX

Title and description:

Star Office Drawing
Description: drawing component of Star Office office suite- select File -> New -> Drawing

To run:

athena% add soffice

athena% soffice &

There is 8.0 "what's new", 8.0 "getting started", Sun's Star Office site, the Star Office User Portal

See also: Applix Graphics, CorelDRAW, GLE, Open Office Drawing, tgif

Title and description:

Star Office Presentation Graphics
Description: presentation graphics component of Star Office office suite- select File -> New -> Presentation

To run:

athena% add soffice

athena% soffice &

There is 8.0 "what's new", 8.0 "getting started", Sun's Star Office site, the Star Office User Portal

See also: Applix Presents, CorelDRAW, Magicpoint, Open Office Presentation Graphics

Title and description:

tgif
Description: 2d structured drawing program

To run:

athena% add sipb

athena% tgif file &

There is information on the Web

See also: CorelDRAW, dia, gimp, GLE, GNU plot utilities, Grace, inkscape, ipe, Open Office Drawing, pstoedit, Star Office Drawing, Xara LX, xcircuit, xfig, xpaint

Title and description:

Xara LX
Description: vector graphics drawing application

To run:

athena% add xaralx

athena% xaralx &

There is an author site and local documentation

See also: CorelDRAW, dia, inkscape, ipe, Magicpoint, Open Office Drawing, Scribus, tgif, xcircuit

Title and description:

xcircuit
Description: drawing program specialized for generating publication-quality schematic circuit diagrams

To run:

athena% add xcircuit

athena% xcircuit &

There is an Author Web site with a reference manual, tutorial and other information

See also: dia, GLE, eagle, Electric VLSI, hspice, inkscape, ipe, Magic, tgif, Xara LX, xfig, xpaint

Title and description:

xdpr
Description: prints the image contents of an X Window on a printer

To run:

athena% xdpr

then after the cursor shape changes to a cross-hair, move it into the window you want to print and click any mouse button

See also: xv, xwd

Title and description:

xfig
Description: menu-driven drawing program allowing the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively in an X Window

To run:

athena% add sipb

athena% xfig &

See also: CorelDRAW, dia, gimp, GLE, pstoedit, tgif, xcircuit, xpaint

Title and description:

xpaint
Description: drawing program, similar to MacDraw

To run:

athena% add graphics

athena% xpaint &

See also: CorelDRAW, dia, gimp, GLE, tgif, xcircuit, xfig

Title and description:

xv
Description: interactive, general-purpose graphics viewer that can display, convert and manipulate images in many native formats (including GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, X11 bitmap)

To run:

athena% add graphics

athena% xv file &

there is an online manual; xv can be used to grab screenshots; right click on splash screen, then click on grab button for options

See also: convert (ImageMagick), DjVu Libre utilities, eog, FWTools, gimp, NetPBM Utilities, rayshade, Renderman, xdpr, xwd

Title and description:

xwd, xwud
Description: xwd dumps the contents of an X Window image into a specially formatted dump file. xwud displays such a stored image in an X Window

To run:

athena% xwd -out tofile

then after the cursor shape changes to a cross-hair, move it into the window you want to dump and click any mouse button

athena% xwud -in fromfile

See also: convert (ImageMagick), xdpr, xv

Title and description:

ac3d
Description: application for constructing 3d models of objects. Supports a native object description format and can export models in most common 3d image description formats

To run:

athena% add ac3d

athena% ac3d & (for version linked dynamically to libGL.so)

athena% ac3ds & (for version linked statically to Mesa)

There is an author Web page and local online documentation

See also: blender, FreeWRL, geomview, ivview, K3DSurf, OpenDX, Open Inventor, ParaView, POV-Ray, Pro-Engineer, Visualization Toolkit

Title and description:

blender
Description: 3d modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback application

To run:

athena% add blender

athena% blender

athena% blenderplayer [options] file.blend (to play a blender animation file file.blend)

There is an author Web page and local tutorial

See also: ac3d, Maya, OpenDX, ParaView, POV-Ray, Visualization Toolkit

Title and description:

Maya
Description: high-end modeling, visual effects and animation tool

Licenses: we have 10 floating licenses

To run:

athena% add maya

athena% maya

There is a vendor site, local online documentation and local 6.0.1 release notes

See also: blender, Pro-Engineer, ParaView, Renderman

Note:

Maya is on Athena by courtesy of a license funded by the Architecture Department, and is running off a license server maintained by them. It is available "as is", with no end-user support. We cannot guarantee uninterrupted operation, nor that Maya will remain available on Athena if they decide to discontinue the license. Questions about this can be addressed to the 3partysw@mit.edu mailing list

Title and description:

Pro-Engineer
Description: high-end CAD/CAM package, used mostly in Mechanical Engineering

Licenses: we have 450 floating licenses

To run:

athena% add ptc

athena% proe

athena% proe -ver wfire2 (for older Wildfire 2 version)

Please see /mit/ptc_vwfire3/README.athena for additional information; new Wildfire 3 features are here

MechE distributes Windows Wildfire for on-campus teaching use

See also: ac3d, adina, Maya, QCad

Title and description:

QCad
Description: two dimensional CAD package, using Autocad dxf as native file format

To run:

athena% add qcad

athena% qcad &

There is local html and pdf help, vendor site help and a tutorial; main vendor site

See also: Pro-Engineer

Title and description:

mpeg_play
Description: plays mpeg-1 encoded video files

To run:

athena% add graphics

athena% mpeg_play file.mpg

See also: xanim

Note:

X server needs to be in 8 bit mode to run this application. Login with Other Options, select restart X in 8 bit mode

Title and description:

mplayer
Description: plays video animations in multiple image formats including MPEG/VOB, ogg, wma/wmv, avi, asf, VDC, SVDC, DVD and others, and a variety of audio formats including mp3

To run:

athena% add outland

athena% mplayer options mrl (where mrl is a filename or media resource locator- see man page for more information)

See also: mpg123, RealPlayer, xanim, xine, xmms

Title and description:

sdr
Description: displays live Internet video broadcasts

To run:

athena% add mbone

athena% sdr &

See also: mpeg_play, xanim

Title and description:

xanim
Description: plays video animations in multiple image formats including Amiga PFX & MovieSetter, AVI, DL, FLI, FLC, GIF87a, GIF89a, IFF, mpeg-1, Quicktime and RLS (Utah Raster Toolkit)

To run:

athena% add graphics

athena% xanim file

See also: mpeg_play, mplayer, sdr, xine

Title and description:

xine
Description: plays video animations in multiple image formats including MPEG, ogg, avi, asf, quicktime, VDC, SVDC, DVD

To run:

athena% add outland

athena% xine options mrl (where mrl is a filename or media resource locator- see man page for more information)

See also: mplayer, xanim