NAME
tcscan - scan multimedia streams from medium and print
information on the standard output
SYNOPSIS
- tcscan
- -i name [ -x codec ] [ -e
r[,b[,c]] ] [ -b bitrate ] [ -w
num ] [ -f rate ] [ -d verbosity
] [ -v ]
COPYRIGHT
tcscan is Copyright (C) by Thomas
Östreich.
DESCRIPTION
tcscan is part of and usually called by
transcode.
However, it can also be used independently.
tcscan reads source (from stdin if not explicitely defined)
and prints on the standard output.
OPTIONS
- -i name
- Specify input source. If ommited, stdin is assumed.
You can specify a file, directory, device, mountpoint or host
address as input source. tcscan usually handles the
different types correctly.
- -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.
NOTES
tcscan is a front end for scaning various
source types and is used in transcode´s import
modules. tcscan does a complete scan of the source to gather
information.
EXAMPLES
The command tcscan -i foo.avi prints header
information about the AVI-file itself and lists details on the
video and audio content, e.g., keyframes, chunk structure.
The command cat audio.pcm | tcscan -x pcm -e 48000,16,2
simply determines the playtime lenghth of the raw audio stream.
The command tcscan -x mp3 -i input.mp3 will print the
number of chunks in the MP3 file and the average bitrate.
AUTHORS
tcscan was written by Thomas
Östreich
<ostreich@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de>
with contributions from many others. See AUTHORS for details.
SEE ALSO
avifix(1),
avisync(1),
avimerge(1),
avisplit(1),
tcprobe(1),
tcscan(1),
tccat(1),
tcdemux(1),
tcextract(1),
tcdecode(1),
transcode(1)