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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat What is a PID number? Post 302514688 by Corona688 on Sunday 17th of April 2011 01:49:57 PM
Old 04-17-2011
Each time a process is created it gets its own unique number to refer to it by. That's a Process ID, or "PID" for short.
 

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Ingests(1)						      General Commands Manual							Ingests(1)

NAME
ingests - Build an auxiliary file for multicat SYNOPSIS
ingests -p <PCR PID> [-m <payload size>]>] <input ts> DESCRIPTION
Ingests is a companion application designed to manipulate TS files. It reads the PCR values of the file, and builds the auxiliary file that is necessary for multicat. The combination of ingests and multicat makes a simple and efficient TS file streamer. OPTIONS
-m <payloadsize> Size of the payload -h Show summary of options -m <payloadsize> Size of the payload -p <PCR PID> PCR PID to use SEE ALSO
aggregartp(1). desaggregartp(1). multicat(1), offsets(1). Read the README file for more information about the configuration of ingests. AUTHOR
ingests was written by Christophe Massiot. LICENCE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. This manual page was written by Remi Duraffort <ivoire at videolan dot org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). Multicat 1.0 August 23, 2010 Ingests(1)
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