tcscan(1)

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
   <[email protected]>  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)

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