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| 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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[69da6d3] | 5 |
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[77a06259] | 6 | <!ENTITY transcode-download-http "http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~pehrens/transcode-&transcode-version;.tar.gz">
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| 7 | <!ENTITY transcode-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/transcode-&transcode-version;.tar.gz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY transcode-md5sum "9bfef83b7e0fe2c27d25d871fef75a92">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY transcode-size "2.6 MB">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY transcode-buildsize "60 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY transcode-time "1.69 SBU">
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[01062dd] | 12 | ]>
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| 13 |
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[77a06259] | 14 | <sect1 id="transcode" xreflabel="Transcode-&transcode-version;">
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[a0f03b0] | 15 | <sect1info>
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[5cd0959d] | 16 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 17 | <date>$Date$</date>
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[a0f03b0] | 18 | </sect1info>
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[dd3f20f0] | 19 | <?dbhtml filename="transcode.html"?>
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[77a06259] | 20 | <title><application>Transcode</application>-&transcode-version;</title>
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[1c62057] | 21 |
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[01062dd] | 22 | <sect2>
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[77a06259] | 23 | <title>Introduction to <application>Transcode</application></title>
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[01062dd] | 24 |
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[77a06259] | 25 | <para><application>Transcode</application> is a fast, versatile and
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[69da6d3] | 26 | command-line based audio/video everything to everything
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[77a06259] | 27 | converter. For a rundown of the features and capabilities, along with
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| 28 | usage examples, visit the Transcode Wiki at
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| 29 | <ulink url="http://www.transcoding.org/"/>.</para>
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[01062dd] | 30 |
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| 31 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 32 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 33 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 34 | url="&transcode-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 35 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 36 | url="&transcode-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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[77a06259] | 37 | <listitem><para>Download MD5 sum: &transcode-md5sum;</para></listitem>
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[01062dd] | 38 | <listitem><para>Download size: &transcode-size;</para></listitem>
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[77a06259] | 39 | <listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
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[01062dd] | 40 | &transcode-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 41 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 42 | &transcode-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 43 | </sect3>
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| 44 |
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[77a06259] | 45 | <!--
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[69da6d3] | 46 | <sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
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| 47 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 48 | <listitem><para>Required Patch: <ulink
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| 49 | url="&patch-root;/transcode-&transcode-version;-fix_largefile_split-1.patch"/></para>
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| 50 | </listitem>
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| 51 | <listitem><para>Required Patch (if
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| 52 | <application>libdv</application> is installed): <ulink
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| 53 | url="&patch-root;/transcode-&transcode-version;-fix_dv-1.patch"/></para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem><para>Required Patch (if compiled with
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| 56 | <application><acronym>GCC</acronym></application>-3.4.x): <ulink
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| 57 | url="&patch-root;/transcode-&transcode-version;-gcc34-1.patch"/></para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | </itemizedlist>
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| 60 | </sect3>
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[77a06259] | 61 | -->
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <sect3><title><application>Transcode</application> dependencies</title>
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| 64 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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| 65 | <para><xref linkend="ffmpeg"/></para>
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| 66 | </sect4>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | <sect4><title>Recommended</title>
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| 69 | <para><xref linkend="NASM"/> and <xref linkend="lame"/></para>
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| 70 | </sect4>
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[69da6d3] | 71 |
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[01062dd] | 72 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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[c5aac5d7] | 73 | <para>X (<xref linkend="xfree86"/> or <xref linkend="xorg"/>),
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| 74 | <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
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[69da6d3] | 75 | <xref linkend="GTK"/>,
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[77a06259] | 76 | <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
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| 77 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
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[01062dd] | 78 | <xref linkend="imagemagick"/>,
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[77a06259] | 79 | <xref linkend="libjpeg"/> or
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| 80 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpeg">MMX Jpeg</ulink>,
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[69da6d3] | 81 | <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
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| 82 | <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
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| 83 | <xref linkend="avifile"/>,
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[01062dd] | 84 | <xref linkend="libfame"/>,
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[69da6d3] | 85 | <xref linkend="libmpeg3"/>,
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[01062dd] | 86 | <xref linkend="xvid"/>,
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| 87 | <xref linkend="LZO"/>,
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[69da6d3] | 88 | <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
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| 89 | <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
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| 90 | <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
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| 91 | <ulink url="http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/">MJPEG Tools</ulink>,
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[77a06259] | 92 | <ulink url="http://libquicktime.sourceforge.net/">libquicktime</ulink>,
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| 93 | <ulink url="http://www.theora.org/">Theora</ulink>,
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| 94 | <ulink url="http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/">LVE</ulink>,
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| 95 | <ulink url="http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/">PVM3</ulink> and
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| 96 | <ulink url="http://loci.cs.utk.edu/">LoRS/IBP</ulink></para>
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| 97 |
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| 98 | <para>Though <application>Transcode</application> has no compile-time
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| 99 | requirement for <xref linkend="mplayer"/>'s shared post-processing library,
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| 100 | <application>Transcode</application> can use it at run-time.</para>
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| 101 | </sect4>
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[01062dd] | 102 | </sect3>
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| 103 |
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| 104 | </sect2>
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| 105 |
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| 106 | <sect2>
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[77a06259] | 107 | <title>Installation of <application>Transcode</application></title>
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[01062dd] | 108 |
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[77a06259] | 109 | <para>Install <application>Transcode</application> by running the following
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[01062dd] | 110 | commands:</para>
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| 111 |
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[77a06259] | 112 | <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr --without-x &&
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[01062dd] | 113 | make &&
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| 114 | make install</command></userinput></screen>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | </sect2>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <sect2>
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| 119 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 120 |
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[77a06259] | 121 | <para><option>--without-x</option>: Omit this parameter if you have an
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[69da6d3] | 122 | <application>X</application> Window System installed and you want to compile
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| 123 | X11 dependent filter plugins.</para>
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[01062dd] | 124 |
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[77a06259] | 125 | <para><option>--enable-netstream</option>: This parameter enables network
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| 126 | streaming support.</para>
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| 127 |
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| 128 | <para>Building support for most of the dependency packages requires using
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| 129 | options passed to the <command>configure</command> script. View the
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| 130 | <filename>INSTALL</filename> file and the output from
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| 131 | <command>./configure --help</command> for complete information about
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| 132 | enabling dependency packages.</para>
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| 133 |
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[01062dd] | 134 | </sect2>
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| 135 |
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| 136 | <sect2>
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| 137 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 138 |
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[77a06259] | 139 | <para>The <application>Transcode</application> package contains
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[01062dd] | 140 | <command>transcode</command>,
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| 141 | <command>tccat</command>,
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| 142 | <command>tcdecode</command>,
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| 143 | <command>tcdemux</command>,
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| 144 | <command>tcextract</command>,
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| 145 | <command>tcframe</command>,
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| 146 | <command>tcmodinfo</command>,
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| 147 | <command>tcmp3cut</command>,
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| 148 | <command>tcmplex</command>,
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| 149 | <command>tcprobe</command>,
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| 150 | <command>tcrequant</command>,
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| 151 | <command>tcscan</command>,
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| 152 | <command>tcxmlcheck</command>,
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| 153 | <command>tcxpm2rgb</command>,
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| 154 | <command>avicodec</command>,
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| 155 | <command>avidump</command>,
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| 156 | <command>avifix</command>,
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| 157 | <command>aviindex</command>,
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| 158 | <command>avimerge</command>,
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| 159 | <command>avisplit</command>,
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| 160 | <command>avisync</command>
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| 161 | and input/filter/output modules.</para>
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| 162 |
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| 163 | </sect2>
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| 164 |
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| 165 | <sect2><title>Description</title>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | <sect3><title>transcode</title>
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| 168 | <para><command>transcode</command> is the encoder's user interface that handles
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| 169 | the plugins and other programs, being the glue between the modules.
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| 170 | There are several well documented usage examples on both the homepage
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| 171 | and the documentation included in the package.</para></sect3>
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| 172 |
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| 173 | <sect3><title>tccat</title>
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| 174 | <para><command>tccat</command> concatenates input files using the input plugins
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[77a06259] | 175 | of <application>Transcode</application>.</para></sect3>
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[01062dd] | 176 |
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| 177 | <sect3><title>tcdecode</title>
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| 178 | <para><command>tcdecode</command> is used to decode input files to
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| 179 | raw video and <acronym>PCM</acronym> audio stream.</para></sect3>
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| 180 |
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| 181 | <sect3><title>tcdemux</title>
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| 182 | <para><command>tcdemux</command> demultiplexes (separates) audio/video input
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[69da6d3] | 183 | that contains multiple streams, e.g., <acronym>VOB</acronym> files.</para>
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| 184 | </sect3>
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[01062dd] | 185 |
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| 186 | <sect3><title>tcextract</title>
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| 187 | <para><command>tcextract</command> grabs single streams from a file containing
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| 188 | multiple streams.</para></sect3>
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| 189 |
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| 190 | <sect3><title>tcframe</title>
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| 191 | <para><command>tcframe</command> processes single video frames for different
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| 192 | color encodings (<acronym>RGB</acronym> >-< <acronym>YUV</acronym> or
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| 193 | similar).</para></sect3>
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| 194 |
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| 195 | <sect3><title>tcmodinfo</title>
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| 196 | <para><command>tcmodinfo</command> loads a supplied
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[77a06259] | 197 | <application>Transcode</application> filter module and prints its
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[01062dd] | 198 | parameters.</para></sect3>
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| 199 |
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| 200 | <sect3><title>tcmp3cut</title>
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| 201 | <para><command>tcmp3cut</command> is a tool which can cut
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| 202 | <acronym>MP3</acronym> streams at milliseconds positions.</para></sect3>
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| 203 |
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| 204 | <sect3><title>tcprobe</title>
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[69da6d3] | 205 | <para><command>tcprobe</command> prints information about the input file
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| 206 | format.</para></sect3>
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[01062dd] | 207 |
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| 208 | <sect3><title>tcrequant</title>
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| 209 | <para><command>tcrequant</command> is a tool which can requantize an
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| 210 | <acronym>MPEG</acronym>-2 elementary stream.</para></sect3>
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| 211 |
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| 212 | <sect3><title>tcscan</title>
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| 213 | <para><command>tcscan</command> performs several measurements on the given
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| 214 | input data.</para></sect3>
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| 215 |
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| 216 | <sect3><title>tcxmlcheck</title>
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| 217 | <para><command>tcxmlcheck</command> checks information in a
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| 218 | <acronym>SMIL</acronym> input file.</para></sect3>
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| 219 |
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| 220 | <sect3><title>avicodec</title>
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| 221 | <para><command>avicodec</command> indicates or changes
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| 222 | <acronym>FOURCC</acronym> <acronym>CODEC</acronym> flag in an
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| 223 | <acronym>AVI</acronym> file.</para></sect3>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <sect3><title>avidump</title>
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| 226 | <para><command>avidump</command> dumps audio or video stream of a given
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| 227 | <acronym>AVI</acronym> file to stdout (for <acronym>AVI</acronym>
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| 228 | conversion or extraction of audio streams).</para></sect3>
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| 229 |
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| 230 | <sect3><title>avifix</title>
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| 231 | <para><command>avifix</command> fixes the header of an
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| 232 | <acronym>AVI</acronym> file.</para></sect3>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <sect3><title>aviindex</title>
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| 235 | <para><command>aviindex</command> writes a text file describing the
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| 236 | index of an <acronym>AVI</acronym> file.</para></sect3>
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| 237 |
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| 238 | <sect3><title>avimerge</title>
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[69da6d3] | 239 | <para><command>avimerge</command> merges <acronym>AVI</acronym> files of the
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| 240 | same format. Do not try to merge <acronym>AVI</acronym> files of different
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| 241 | formats, it will most likely result in errors (and format means same bitrates,
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| 242 | too!).</para></sect3>
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[01062dd] | 243 |
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| 244 | <sect3><title>avisplit</title>
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| 245 | <para><command>avisplit</command> splits <acronym>AVI</acronym> files
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| 246 | into multiple files.</para></sect3>
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| 247 |
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| 248 | <sect3><title>avisync</title>
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| 249 | <para><command>avisync</command> can shift audio in
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| 250 | <acronym>AVI</acronym> files for better synchronizing of audio and video
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| 251 | data signal.</para></sect3>
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| 252 |
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| 253 | <sect3><title>input/filter/output modules</title>
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| 254 | <para>Depending on the external libraries that are used, there are a
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| 255 | great number of plugins to convert audio and video input to raw format,
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| 256 | process raw video and audio and convert raw audio and video to other
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| 257 | formats to be written into a file type of choice. Read the
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| 258 | documentation.</para></sect3>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | </sect2>
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[1c62057] | 261 |
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| 262 | </sect1>
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