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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).

       -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)