


tcprobe(1)                                             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).



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       -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
       <ostreich@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de>   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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