glfs/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-desc.xml
Igor Živković cef1b60843 updated to transcode-0.6.12
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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
<para>The <application>transcode</application> package contains
<command>transcode</command>,
<command>tccat</command>,
<command>tcdecode</command>,
<command>tcdemux</command>,
<command>tcextract</command>,
<command>tcframe</command>,
<command>tcmodinfo</command>,
<command>tcmp3cut</command>,
<command>tcmplex</command>,
<command>tcprobe</command>,
<command>tcrequant</command>,
<command>tcscan</command>,
<command>tcxmlcheck</command>,
<command>tcxpm2rgb</command>,
<command>avicodec</command>,
<command>avidump</command>,
<command>avifix</command>,
<command>aviindex</command>,
<command>avimerge</command>,
<command>avisplit</command>,
<command>avisync</command>
and input/filter/output modules.</para>
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<sect2><title>Description</title>
<sect3><title>transcode</title>
<para><command>transcode</command> is the encoder's user interface that handles
the plugins and other programs, being the glue between the modules.
There are several well documented usage examples on either the homepage
or the documentation included in the package.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tccat</title>
<para><command>tccat</command> concatenates input files using the input plugins
of <application>transcode</application>.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcdecode</title>
<para><command>tcdecode</command> is used to decode input files to
raw video and <acronym>PCM</acronym> audio stream.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcdemux</title>
<para><command>tcdemux</command> demultiplexes (separates) audio/video input
that contains multiple streams, e.g. <acronym>VOB</acronym> files.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcextract</title>
<para><command>tcextract</command> grabs single streams from a file containing
multiple streams.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcframe</title>
<para><command>tcframe</command> processes single video frames for different
color encodings (<acronym>RGB</acronym> &gt;-&lt; <acronym>YUV</acronym> or
similar).</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcmodinfo</title>
<para><command>tcmodinfo</command> loads a supplied
<application>transcode</application> filter module and prints its
parameters.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcmp3cut</title>
<para><command>tcmp3cut</command> is a tool which can cut
<acronym>MP3</acronym> streams at milliseconds positions.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcprobe</title>
<para><command>tcprobe</command> prints information about the input file format.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcrequant</title>
<para><command>tcrequant</command> is a tool which can requantize an
<acronym>MPEG</acronym>-2 elementary stream.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcscan</title>
<para><command>tcscan</command> performs several measurements on the given
input data.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcxmlcheck</title>
<para><command>tcxmlcheck</command> checks information in a
<acronym>SMIL</acronym> input file.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avicodec</title>
<para><command>avicodec</command> indicates or changes
<acronym>FOURCC</acronym> <acronym>CODEC</acronym> flag in an
<acronym>AVI</acronym> file.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avidump</title>
<para><command>avidump</command> dumps audio or video stream of an given
<acronym>AVI</acronym> file to stdout (for <acronym>AVI</acronym>
conversion or extraction of audio streams).</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avifix</title>
<para><command>avifix</command> fixes the header of an
<acronym>AVI</acronym> file.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>aviindex</title>
<para><command>aviindex</command> writes a text file describing the
index of an <acronym>AVI</acronym> file.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avimerge</title>
<para><command>avimerge</command> merges <acronym>AVI</acronym> files of the same format. Do not
try to merge <acronym>AVI</acronym> files of different formats, it will most likely result in
errors (and format means same bitrates, too!).</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avisplit</title>
<para><command>avisplit</command> splits <acronym>AVI</acronym> files
into multiple files.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avisync</title>
<para><command>avisync</command> can shift audio in
<acronym>AVI</acronym> files for better synchronizing of audio and video
data signal.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>input/filter/output modules</title>
<para>Depending on the external libraries that are used, there are a
great number of plugins to convert audio and video input to raw format,
process raw video and audio and convert raw audio and video to other
formats to be written into a file type of choice. Read the
documentation.</para></sect3>
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