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)