.TH tcscan 1 "23th September 2002" "tcscan(1)"
.SH NAME
tcscan \- scan multimedia streams from medium and print information on the
standard output
.SH SYNOPSIS
.TP
.B tcscan
.B -i
.I name
[
.B -x
.I codec
] [
.B -e
.I r[,b[,c]]
] [
.B -b
.I bitrate
] [
.B -w
.I num
] [
.B -f
.I rate
] [
.B -d
.I verbosity
] [
.B -v
]
.SH COPYRIGHT
\fBtcscan\fP is Copyright (C) by Thomas Oestreich.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B tcscan
is part of and usually called by \fBtranscode\fP.
.br
However, it can also be used independently.
.br
\fBtcscan\fP reads source (from stdin if not explicitely defined) and
prints on the standard output.
.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB-i \fIname\fP"
Specify input source.  If ommited, \fIstdin\fP is assumed.
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You can specify a file, directory, device, mountpoint or host address
as input source.  \fBtcscan\fP usually handles the different types
correctly.
.IP "\fB-d\fP \fIlevel\fP"
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
.IP "\fB-v\fP"
Print version information and exit.
.SH NOTES
\fBtcscan\fP is a front end for scaning various source types and is used in \fBtranscode\fP's import modules.
\fBtcscan\fP does a complete scan of the source to gather information.
.SH EXAMPLES
The command
.B 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
.B cat audio.pcm | tcscan -x pcm -e 48000,16,2
simply determines the playtime lenghth of the raw audio stream.

The command
.B tcscan -x mp3 -i input.mp3
will print the number of chunks in the MP3 file and the average bitrate.
.PP
.SH AUTHORS
.B tcscan
was written by Thomas Oestreich
.br
<ostreich@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de> with contributions from
many others.  See AUTHORS for details.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR avifix (1),
.BR avisync (1),
.BR avimerge (1),
.BR avisplit (1),
.BR tcprobe (1),
.BR tcscan (1),
.BR tccat (1),
.BR tcdemux (1),
.BR tcextract (1),
.BR tcdecode (1),
.BR transcode (1)