NAME

       tccat - concatenate multimedia streams from medium and print on the standard output

SYNOPSIS

       tccat  -i name [ -t magic ] [ -T title[,chapter[,angle]] ] [ -L ] [ -S n ] [ -P ] [ -a ] [
              -d mode ] [ -v ]

COPYRIGHT

       tccat is Copyright (C) by Thomas Oestreich.

DESCRIPTION

       tccat is part of and usually called by transcode.
       However, it can also be used independently.
       tccat reads source (from stdin if not explicitely defined)  and  prints  on  the  standard
       output. Directory contents is concatenated, if source files have the same format. Multiple
       AVI-files are also supported.

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.  tccat usually handles the different types correctly.

       -t magic
              Tell  tccat  about  the type of input.  Currently only dvd is supported - any other
              parameter will be ignored.

       -T title[,chapter[,angle]]
              Select DVD title and extract only a single chapter  with  selected  viewing  angle.
              Setting  the  argument chapter to -1 means to process all available chapters on the
              DVD.
              If this option is given, the input type of dvd will also  be  assumed  (see  option
              -t).

       -L     This option tells tccat to loop through all chapters starting at the one given with
              the option -T.

       -S n   Seek to program stream (VOB) offset nx2kB before starting output.

       -P     Stream full DVD title specified by -T.

       -a     Use this option to dump an AVI-file/socket audio stream. The default is to  extract
              and concatenate AVI-file video stream.

       -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

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

EXAMPLES

       The command

       tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 | mplayer -

       reads  all  chapters  belonging to title 1 of a DVD (assuming that /dev/dvd/ is a symbolic
       link to a real DVD device) and pipes a MPEG program stream into player.

AUTHORS

       tccat was written by Thomas Oestreich
       <ostreich@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de> with  contributions  from  many  others.   See
       AUTHORS for details.

SEE ALSO

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