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.
-dlevel
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.
