# Kaffeine User's Manual

`Kaffeine`

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`kaffeine`

A media player by KDE with digital TV support

    kaffeine
    -d, --debug
    --tempfile
    -f, --fullscreen
    -m, --minimal
    -t, --alwaysontop
    --audiocd
    --videocd
    --aspectratio aspect_ratio
    --dvd
    --dumpdvb
    --channel name / number
    --tv channel
    --lastchannel
    files

Please notice that `--channel`, `--tv`, `--lastchannel`, `--audiocd`, `--videocd`, `--dvd` and ``files`` are mutually exclusive.

## Description

Kaffeine is a media player. What makes it different from the others is its excellent support of digital TV (DVB). Kaffeine has user-friendly interface, so that even first time users can start immediately playing their movies: from DVD (including DVD menus, titles, chapters, etc.), VCD, or a file.

Kaffeine uses libVLC as video/audio play backend.

## Options

`-d` `--debug`

- Enable all debug messages. Please notice that Kaffeine also allows fine-tuning debug messages, by enabling messages per category, by using the environment var:

  QT_LOGGING_RULES=kaffeine.category.debug=true

  where category can be:

  `cam`

- for dvb CAM logs

`dev`

- for dvb device and libdvbv5 logs

`dvbsi`

- for dvb MPEG-TS SI parsing logs

`epg`

- for dvb EPG logs

`dvb`

- for other dvb logs

`config`

- for configuration logs

`mediawidget`

- for media widget logs

`playlist`

- for playlist logs

`sql`

- for SQL lite logs

`vlc`

- for libVlc logs

`--tempfile`

- The files/URLs opened by the application will be deleted after use

`-f` `--fullscreen`

- Start in full screen mode. When in full screen mode, all menus are hidden by default. In order to unhide the menus, move the mouse to the menu locations, e. g. to the top/bottom or left position of the screen.

`-m` `--minimal`

- Start in minimal mode. In minimal mode, the window decoration with the title bar is shown. All other menus are hidden by default. In order to unhide the menus, move the mouse to the menu locations, e. g. to the top/bottom or left position of the &kaffeine; window.

  Starts in minimal mode

`-t` `--alwaysontop`

- Tells the window manager to start &kaffeine; main window always on top of other windows. This option can be disabled later via the window manager, usually by clicking the title bar with the right mouse button and deselecting the always on top button box.

`--aspectratio` `aspect_ratio`

- Forces &kaffeine; to start with an specific aspect ratio, disabling the automatic mode. This can be useful on wide and ultra-wide monitors, where the user always want to see video in full screen mode using the maximum possible resolution. Valid values are: 1:1, 4:3, 5:4, 16:9, 16:10, 2.21:1, 2.35:1 and 2.39:1. If an invalid value is passed, or if this option is not used, it will default to automatic mode.

`--audiocd`

- Play Audio CD

`--videocd`

- Play Video CD

`--dvd`

- Play DVD

`--dumpdvb`

- Dump dvb data (debug option)

`--channel` `name` / `number`

- Play TV channel

`--tv` `channel`

- (deprecated option)

`--lastchannel`

- Play last tuned TV channel

``files``

- Files or URLs to play

## Files

Kaffeine uses the file `scanfile.dvb` with a list of known channels per locality and per Satellite (for DVB-S).

When either new channels are added on some City, or when new Satellite beams are added, which are not available in Kaffeine, either use dvbv5-scan or w_scan to generate a new file (in the latter case, converted to the proper format using dvb-format-convert), and submit it to linux-media@vger.kernel.org, with the subject [PATCH] dtv-scan-tables: `some description`. The new patch will be added to `scanfile.dvb` and the updated file will be available to be updated from the Internet in the Kaffeine application.

## See Also

- More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kaffeine (either enter this &URL; into &konqueror;, or run ``khelpcenter` `help:/kaffeine``).
- kf5options(7)
- qt5options(7)
- dvbv5-scan(1)
- w-scan(1)
- There is also further information available at the Kaffeine Page

## Authors

To list the authors of Kaffeine use ``kaffeine` `--author`` in a terminal.