tcprobe(1)

NAME

   tcprobe - probe multimedia streams from medium and print information on
   the standard output

SYNOPSIS

   tcprobe
          -i name [ -B ] [ -M ] [ -T title ] [ -b bitrate ] [ -H n ] [  -f
          seekfile ] [ -d verbosity ] [ -v ]

COPYRIGHT

   tcprobe is Copyright (C) by Thomas Oestreich.

DESCRIPTION

   tcprobe is part of and usually called by transcode.
   However, it can also be used independently.
   tcprobe 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.  tcprobe usually handles the different
          types correctly.

   -B     Binary output to stdout for use in transcode.

   -M     Use EXPERIMENTAL mplayer probe, useful for streams that  tcprobe
          doesn't  recognize  elsewhere. With this option enabled, tcprobe
          merely acts as a frontend for mplayer; of course mplayer  binary
          needs to be installed and avalaible somewhere in PATH.

   -T title
          Probe for DVD title

   -H n   This option tells tcprobe to scan n MB of input data. Default is
          to scan 1 MB. To detect  all  subtitles  and  audio  tracks  (if
          available)  it  is  highly  recommended that this n should be at
          least increased to 10 or even higher. Very often only some audio
          tracks  start  during  the  first  MB  of  a  VOB or DVD file so
          transcode cannot detect them if not called with a higher  value.
          Please  note  that  transcode(1) has a similar -H option as well
          which has the same meaning.

   -s n   Skip the first n bytes of the input stream. Default is  to  skip
          no bytes.

   -b bitrate
          Set audio encoder bitrate to bitrate

   -f seekfile
          Read  index/seek  information  from seekfile. This is especially
          useful for AVI files when it takes a long  time  to  probe  when
          there is no index in the AVI available. Also see aviindex(1).

   -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

   tcprobe  is a front end for probing various source types and is used in
   transcode's import modules.

EXAMPLES

   The command tcprobe -i foo.avi will print interesting information about
   the AVI file itself and its video and audio content.

AUTHORS

   tcprobe was written by Thomas Oestreich
   <[email protected]>   with  contributions  from
   many others.  See AUTHORS for details.

SEE ALSO

   aviindex(1),   avifix(1),   avisync(1),    avimerge(1),    avisplit(1),
   tcprobe(1), tcscan(1), tccat(1), tcdemux(1), tcextract(1), tcdecode(1),
   transcode(1)

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