tccat

-i name [ -t magic ] [ -T title[,chapter[,angle]] ] [ -L ] [ -S n title[,chapter[,angle]] ] [ -L ] [ -S n ] [ -P ] [ -a ] [ -d mode ] [ -v ]

-i name

Specify input source. If ommited, stdin is assumed. You can specify a file, directory, device, mountpoint or host address as input source. tccat usually handles the different types correctly.

-t magic

Tell tccat about the type of input. Currently only dvd is supported - any other parameter will be ignored.

-T title[,chapter[,angle]] title[,chapter[,angle]]

Select DVD title and extract only a single

Select DVD title and extract only a single chapter with selected viewing angle. Setting the argument chapter to -1 means to process all available chapters on the DVD. If this option is given, the input type of dvd will also be assumed (see option -t).

-L

This option tells tccat to loop through all chapters starting at the one given with the option -T.

-S n

Seek to program stream (VOB) offset nx2kB before starting output.

-P

Stream full DVD title specified by -T.

Stream full DVD title specified by -T.

-a

Use this option to dump an AVI-file/socket audio stream. The default is to extract and concatenate AVI-file video stream.

-d level

With this option you can specify a bitmask to enable different levels of verbosity (if supported). You can combine several levels by adding the corresponding values:

QUIET 0

INFO 1

DEBUG 2

STATS 4

WATCH 8

FLIST 16

VIDCORE 32

SYNC 64

COUNTER 128

PRIVATE 256

-v

Print version information and exit.

tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 | mplayer -

reads all chapters belonging to title 1 of a DVD

reads all chapters belonging to title 1 of a DVD (assuming that /dev/dvd/ is a symbolic link to a real DVD device) and pipes a MPEG program stream into player.