NAME

       kateenc - create Kate streams from text input

SYNOPSIS

       kateenc  [-hVM]  [-o  outfile]  [-l language] [-c category] [-s serial] [-C tag=value] [-R threshold] [-K
       threshold] -t filetype [ infile ]

DESCRIPTION

       kateenc creates Kate streams from input files (SubRip SRT subtitles, LRC  lyrics,  and  libkate's  custom
       description  language).   When  saved  to an Ogg stream (the default behavior), a Kate stream may then be
       merged with other Ogg streams (eg, a Theora video) using the oggz tools.

OPTIONS

       -h     Show command line help.

       -V     Show version information.

       -M     Allow simple HTML-like markup in SRT files. If this parameter is used, strings such as "<i>"  will
              be  interpreted to mean italics, rather than appear as such. Note that various players interpret a
              slightly different set of HTML tags, and some do not.

       -o outfile
              Write the output Kate stream to the given file name (writes to stdout if not specified).

       -l language
              Sets the language for the stream (default is the language specified in the input, or none).

       -c category
              Sets the category for the stream (default is the category specified in the input, or none).

       -s serial
              Sets the serial number for the output Kate stream (does not apply to raw streams).

       -C tag=value
              Adds a comment to encode into the output Kate stream. The comment must be of the  form  tag=value,
              and  comply  with  the  Vorbis  comment rules (eg, tag is composed of a particular subset of ASCII
              characters, and value is valid UTF-8). Note that you might have to escape or quote the comment for
              it to be seen as a single command line parameter.

       -t filetype
              Specifies the type of the input (srt, lrc, kate)

       -R threshold
              Use  repeat  packets,  with  the  given  threshold (in seconds).  Data packets will be repeated at
              intervals of roughly threshold seconds, while active.

       -K threshold
              Use keepalive packets, with the given threshold (in seconds).  Keepalive packets will  be  emitted
              when no other packet has been emitted for roughly threshold seconds.

EXAMPLES

       Create a Kate stream for Welsh subtitles from a SubRip file:

           kateenc -t srt -l cy -c SUB -o output.ogg input.srt

SEE ALSO

       katedec(1), katalyzer(1)