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FLICKS(9.1) FLICKS(9.1) NAME flicks, fflicks, preflicks, 2mux - movie graphics for 5620 SYNOPSIS flicks [ -fmte ] file ... preflicks [ -fmtvloics ] file ... fflicks [ flickfile ] DESCRIPTION Flicks interprets each of the files as a grey-scale frame in the form of picfile(5) (or a square raster of unsigned bytes), dithers them, and displays them on the terminal. Once the frames have been downloaded the frames can be played as a movie, controlled by a menu on button 3. Most menu selections are self-explanatory. Step shows individual frames, stepping forward with button 1, or backward with button 2. Button 3 brings back the main menu. The size of a frame is an option: -f full size: same size as the input (typically 512x512) -m medium size: half the input size (typically 256x256) default -t tiny size: quarter of the input size (typically 128x128) If only one image is processed, full size is the default. For more than 11 pictures, tiny size is default. Anything in between is medium size by default. The frames are rendered with dithering by default, and with error prop- agation if -e is specified. Fflicks downloads frames that have been preprocessed by preflicks into a flickfile. Fflicks downloads much faster than flicks. The options for preflicks include -f, -m, and -t as for flicks, plus -l Use logarithmic dither. -v Chatter on standard error. -o Write the flickfile onto standard output; by default output goes into file _movie. -i Print a summary of the contents of the flickfiles. -c Catenate named flickfiles onto the standard output. -sX,Y the (one only) input file is assumed to be a sequence of XxY- byte frames. If X and Y may be omitted, 512x512 is assumed. Fflicks display is controlled by a menu on button 3. The selection `movie rate' tries to run the display at 24 frames/sec. Frames prepared with preflicks are compacted. Thus fflicks can play a longer sequence than flicks: up to roughly 120 medium sized or 480 tiny frames (20 seconds of movie). Still longer sequences (about twice as long) can be downloaded if fflicks is run within 2mux instead of mux. The price of compaction is speed. Menu selections are available for uncompacting some (even- or odd-numbered) frames. FILES _movie /usr/jerq/lib/2term SEE ALSO pico(1), picfile(5), rebecca(9.1), flickfile(9.5), movie(9.1) FLICKS(9.1)