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 Oestreich.
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 Oestreich
<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)