NAME

       tcscan - scan multimedia streams from medium and print information on the standard output

SYNOPSIS

       tcscan -i  name  [  -x codec ] [ -e r[,b[,c]] ] [ -b bitrate ] [ -w num ] [ -f rate ] [ -d
              verbosity ] [ -v ]

COPYRIGHT

       tcscan is Copyright (C) by Thomas Oestreich.

DESCRIPTION

       tcscan is part of and usually called by transcode.
       However, it can also be used independently.
       tcscan 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.  tcscan usually handles the different types correctly.

       -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

       tcscan  is  a front end for scaning various source types and is used in transcode's import
       modules.  tcscan does a complete scan of the source to gather information.

EXAMPLES

       The command tcscan -i foo.avi prints header information  about  the  AVI-file  itself  and
       lists details on the video and audio content, e.g., keyframes, chunk structure.

       The  command  cat  audio.pcm  | tcscan -x pcm -e 48000,16,2 simply determines the playtime
       lenghth of the raw audio stream.

       The command tcscan -x mp3 -i input.mp3 will print the number of chunks in the MP3 file and
       the average bitrate.

AUTHORS

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

SEE ALSO

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