glfs/multimedia/videoutils/transcode/transcode-desc.xml
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<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>tcprobe</command>, <command>tcscan</command>,
<command>avicodec</command>, <command>avidump</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
<filename>RAW</filename> 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>tcprobe</title>
<para><command>tcprobe</command> prints information about the input file format.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>tcscan</title>
<para><command>tcscan</command> performs several measurements on the given
input data.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avicodec</title>
<para><command>avicodec</command> indicates or changes
<acronym>FOURCC</acronym> <acronym>CODEC</acronym> flag in an
<filename>AVI</filename> file.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avidump</title>
<para><command>avidump</command> dumps audio or video stream of an given
<filename>AVI</filename> file to stdout (for <filename>AVI</filename> conversion or extraction of audio streams).</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avimerge</title>
<para><command>avimerge</command> merges <filename>AVI</filename> files of the same format. Do not
try to merge <filename>AVI</filename> 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 <filename>AVI</filename> files into multiple files.</para></sect3>
<sect3><title>avisync</title>
<para><command>avisync</command> can shift audio in
<filename>AVI</filename> 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
<filename>RAW</filename> format, process <filename>RAW</filename> video and
audio and convert <filename>RAW</filename> audio and video to other formats to
be written into a file type of choice. Read the documentation.</para></sect3>
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