.TH "sayVIMS" 1
.SH NAME
sayVIMS - sends VIMS messages to veejay 
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B sayVIMS [options] [filename]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B sayVIMS
is a simple program to send VIMS messages to veejay.

.SH OPTIONS
The command line options allow to specify its behaviour
.TP
.B \-p [3490]
Veejay port to connect to
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.B \-h [localhost]
Veejay host to connect to
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.B \-f [filename]
Use a filename instead of strings on the commandline
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.B \-g [multicast address]
Multicast address to send to
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.B \-i
Start in interactive mode (use -? to get help, exit interactive mode typing 'quit')
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.B \-c
Start with colored text (geek feature)

.SH USEFULL EXAMPLES
.TP
.B sayVIMS -h localhost -p 3490 \*(lq017:;\*(lq
Start sayVIMS and connect to veejay (and tell veejay go to sample starting position)
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.B sayVIMS -g 224.0.0.50 -p 5000 \*(lq017:;\*(lq
Ditto, for multicast.
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.SH Message Format
A message is described as
.B <selector>:<arguments>;
.TP
For example:
.B 099:1 0;
.TP
The selector is a 3 digit number identifying some atomic function in veejay ("veejay -u|less" to list all events). The colon is used to indicate the start of the list of arguments. The semicolon denotes the end of message.
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.SH Passing arguments
Each of veejay's functions except an ordered argument list ; depending on the 
In case of messages clips, streams or effect chain some values refer to defaults or current:
.TP
.B 0 for current clip/stream
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.B -1 for last clip/stream
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.B > 0 any clip/stream number
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.B -1 for current chain entry
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.B >= 0 < 20 any chain entry
 

.SH BUGS
see BUGS in the source package
.SH AUTHOR
This man page was written by Niels Elburg.
If you have questions, remarks or you just want to
contact the developers, the main mailing list for this
project is: 
.I veejay-users@lists.sourceforge.net
For more info see the website at
.I http://veejay.sourceforge.net
.SH HISTORY
This tool was first named 'sendVIMS' , but it
confused to much with 'sendVIMS for PD' although
the latter is derived from this one.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.B veejay yuv2rawdv rawdv2yuv