tccat(1)						      General Commands Manual							  tccat(1)

NAME

       tccat - concatenate multimedia streams from medium and print on the standard output

SYNOPSIS

       tccat  -i name [ -t magic ] [ -T title[,chapter[,angle]] ] [ -L ] [ -S n ] [ -P ] [ -a ] [ -d mode ] [ -v ]

COPYRIGHT

       tccat is Copyright (C) by Thomas Oestreich.

DESCRIPTION

       tccat is part of and usually called by transcode.
       However, it can also be used independently.
       tccat reads source (from stdin if not explicitely defined) and prints on the standard output. Directory contents is concatenated, if source
       files have the same format. Multiple AVI-files are also supported.

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.  tccat usually handles  the  different  types
	      correctly.

       -t magic
	      Tell tccat about the type of input.  Currently only dvd is supported - any other parameter will be ignored.

       -T title[,chapter[,angle]]
	      Select DVD title and extract only a single chapter with selected viewing angle.  Setting the argument chapter to -1 means to process
	      all available chapters on the DVD.
	      If this option is given, the input type of dvd will also be assumed (see option -t).

       -L     This option tells tccat to loop through all chapters starting at the one given with the option -T.

       -S n   Seek to program stream (VOB) offset nx2kB before starting output.

       -P     Stream full DVD title specified by -T.

       -a     Use this option to dump an AVI-file/socket audio stream. The default is to extract and concatenate AVI-file video stream.

       -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

       tccat is a front end for streaming various source types and is used in transcode's import modules.

EXAMPLES

       The command

       tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 | mplayer -

       reads all chapters belonging to title 1 of a DVD (assuming that /dev/dvd/ is a symbolic link to a real DVD device) and pipes a MPEG program
       stream into player.

AUTHORS

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

SEE ALSO

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

tccat(1)							 15th January 2002							  tccat(1)