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[01062dd] | 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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[0b5a693] | 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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[0b5a693] | 21 | <indexterm zone="transcode">
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[adcfe66f] | 22 | <primary sortas="a-Transcode">Transcode</primary></indexterm>
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[1c62057] | 23 |
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[01062dd] | 24 | <sect2>
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[77a06259] | 25 | <title>Introduction to <application>Transcode</application></title>
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[01062dd] | 26 |
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[77a06259] | 27 | <para><application>Transcode</application> is a fast, versatile and
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[adcfe66f] | 28 | command-line based audio/video everything to everything converter. For a
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| 29 | rundown of the features and capabilities, along with usage examples, visit
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| 30 | the Transcode Wiki at <ulink url="http://www.transcoding.org/"/>.</para>
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[01062dd] | 31 |
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| 32 | <sect3><title>Package information</title>
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| 33 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 34 | <listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
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| 35 | url="&transcode-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
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| 36 | <listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
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| 37 | url="&transcode-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
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[77a06259] | 38 | <listitem><para>Download MD5 sum: &transcode-md5sum;</para></listitem>
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[01062dd] | 39 | <listitem><para>Download size: &transcode-size;</para></listitem>
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[77a06259] | 40 | <listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
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[01062dd] | 41 | &transcode-buildsize;</para></listitem>
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| 42 | <listitem><para>Estimated build time:
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| 43 | &transcode-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
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| 44 | </sect3>
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| 45 |
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[77a06259] | 46 | <!--
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[69da6d3] | 47 | <sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
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| 48 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 49 | <listitem><para>Required Patch: <ulink
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| 50 | url="&patch-root;/transcode-&transcode-version;-fix_largefile_split-1.patch"/></para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem><para>Required Patch (if
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| 53 | <application>libdv</application> is installed): <ulink
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| 54 | url="&patch-root;/transcode-&transcode-version;-fix_dv-1.patch"/></para>
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| 55 | </listitem>
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| 56 | <listitem><para>Required Patch (if compiled with
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| 57 | <application><acronym>GCC</acronym></application>-3.4.x): <ulink
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| 58 | url="&patch-root;/transcode-&transcode-version;-gcc34-1.patch"/></para>
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| 59 | </listitem>
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| 60 | </itemizedlist>
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| 61 | </sect3>
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[77a06259] | 62 | -->
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <sect3><title><application>Transcode</application> dependencies</title>
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| 65 | <sect4><title>Required</title>
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[0b5a693] | 66 | <para><xref linkend="ffmpeg"/></para>
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[77a06259] | 67 | </sect4>
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| 68 |
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| 69 | <sect4><title>Recommended</title>
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[5db3785e] | 70 | <para><xref linkend="NASM"/> and <xref linkend="lame"/></para>
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[77a06259] | 71 | </sect4>
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[69da6d3] | 72 |
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[01062dd] | 73 | <sect4><title>Optional</title>
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[c5aac5d7] | 74 | <para>X (<xref linkend="xfree86"/> or <xref linkend="xorg"/>),
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| 75 | <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
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[69da6d3] | 76 | <xref linkend="GTK"/>,
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[77a06259] | 77 | <xref linkend="sdl"/>,
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| 78 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
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[01062dd] | 79 | <xref linkend="imagemagick"/>,
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[77a06259] | 80 | <xref linkend="libjpeg"/> or
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| 81 | <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mjpeg">MMX Jpeg</ulink>,
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[69da6d3] | 82 | <xref linkend="libdv"/>,
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| 83 | <xref linkend="libdvdread"/>,
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| 84 | <xref linkend="avifile"/>,
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[01062dd] | 85 | <xref linkend="libfame"/>,
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[69da6d3] | 86 | <xref linkend="libmpeg3"/>,
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[01062dd] | 87 | <xref linkend="xvid"/>,
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| 88 | <xref linkend="LZO"/>,
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[69da6d3] | 89 | <xref linkend="liba52"/>,
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| 90 | <xref linkend="libogg"/>,
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| 91 | <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
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| 92 | <ulink url="http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/">MJPEG Tools</ulink>,
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[77a06259] | 93 | <ulink url="http://libquicktime.sourceforge.net/">libquicktime</ulink>,
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| 94 | <ulink url="http://www.theora.org/">Theora</ulink>,
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| 95 | <ulink url="http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net/">LVE</ulink>,
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| 96 | <ulink url="http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/">PVM3</ulink> and
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| 97 | <ulink url="http://loci.cs.utk.edu/">LoRS/IBP</ulink></para>
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| 98 |
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| 99 | <para>Though <application>Transcode</application> has no compile-time
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[0b5a693] | 100 | requirement for <xref linkend="mplayer"/>'s shared post-processing
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[ec2270f] | 101 | library, <application>Transcode</application> can use it at run-time.</para>
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[77a06259] | 102 | </sect4>
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[01062dd] | 103 | </sect3>
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| 104 |
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| 105 | </sect2>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | <sect2>
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[77a06259] | 108 | <title>Installation of <application>Transcode</application></title>
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[01062dd] | 109 |
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[77a06259] | 110 | <para>Install <application>Transcode</application> by running the following
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[01062dd] | 111 | commands:</para>
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| 112 |
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[77a06259] | 113 | <screen><userinput><command>./configure --prefix=/usr --without-x &&
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[adcfe66f] | 114 | make</command></userinput></screen>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <para>Now, as the root user:</para>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <screen><userinput role='root'><command>make install</command></userinput></screen>
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[01062dd] | 119 |
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| 120 | </sect2>
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| 121 |
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| 122 | <sect2>
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| 123 | <title>Command explanations</title>
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| 124 |
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[77a06259] | 125 | <para><option>--without-x</option>: Omit this parameter if you have an
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[69da6d3] | 126 | <application>X</application> Window System installed and you want to compile
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| 127 | X11 dependent filter plugins.</para>
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[01062dd] | 128 |
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[77a06259] | 129 | <para><option>--enable-netstream</option>: This parameter enables network
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| 130 | streaming support.</para>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <para>Building support for most of the dependency packages requires using
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| 133 | options passed to the <command>configure</command> script. View the
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| 134 | <filename>INSTALL</filename> file and the output from
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| 135 | <command>./configure --help</command> for complete information about
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| 136 | enabling dependency packages.</para>
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| 137 |
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[01062dd] | 138 | </sect2>
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| 139 |
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| 140 | <sect2>
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| 141 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 142 |
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[adcfe66f] | 143 | <segmentedlist>
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| 144 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 145 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 146 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 147 | <seglistitem>
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| 148 | <seg>avicodec, avidump, avifix, aviindex, avimerge, avisplit, avisync, tccat,
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| 149 | tcdecode, tcdemux, tcextract, tcframe, tcmodinfo, tcmp3cut, tcmplex, tcprobe,
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| 150 | tcrequant, tcscan, tcxmlcheck, tcxpm2rgb and transcode</seg>
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| 151 | <seg>a52_decore.so, af6_decore.so, export*.so, filter*.so and import*.so
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| 152 | output/filter/input modules</seg>
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| 153 | <seg>/usr/lib/transcode and /usr/share/doc/transcode</seg>
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| 154 | </seglistitem>
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| 155 | </segmentedlist>
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| 156 |
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| 157 | <variablelist>
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| 158 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 159 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 160 |
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| 161 | <varlistentry id="avicodec">
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| 162 | <term><command>avicodec</command></term>
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| 163 | <listitem><para>indicates or changes the <acronym>FOURCC</acronym>
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| 164 | <acronym>CODEC</acronym> flag in an <acronym>AVI</acronym> file.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 165 | <indexterm zone="transcode avicodec">
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[adcfe66f] | 166 | <primary sortas="b-avicodec">avicodec</primary></indexterm>
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| 167 | </listitem>
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| 168 | </varlistentry>
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| 169 |
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| 170 | <varlistentry id="avidump">
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| 171 | <term><command>avidump</command></term>
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| 172 | <listitem><para>dumps audio or video stream of a given <acronym>AVI</acronym>
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| 173 | file to stdout (for <acronym>AVI</acronym> conversion or extraction of audio
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| 174 | streams).</para>
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[0b5a693] | 175 | <indexterm zone="transcode avidump">
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[adcfe66f] | 176 | <primary sortas="b-avidump">avidump</primary></indexterm>
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| 177 | </listitem>
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| 178 | </varlistentry>
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[01062dd] | 179 |
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[adcfe66f] | 180 | <varlistentry id="avifix">
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| 181 | <term><command>avifix</command></term>
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| 182 | <listitem><para>fixes the header of an <acronym>AVI</acronym> file.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 183 | <indexterm zone="transcode avifix">
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[adcfe66f] | 184 | <primary sortas="b-avifix">avifix</primary></indexterm>
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| 185 | </listitem>
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| 186 | </varlistentry>
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| 187 |
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| 188 | <varlistentry id="aviindex">
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| 189 | <term><command>aviindex</command></term>
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| 190 | <listitem><para>writes a text file describing the index of an
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| 191 | <acronym>AVI</acronym> file.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 192 | <indexterm zone="transcode aviindex">
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[adcfe66f] | 193 | <primary sortas="b-aviindex">aviindex</primary></indexterm>
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| 194 | </listitem>
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| 195 | </varlistentry>
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| 196 |
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| 197 | <varlistentry id="avimerge">
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| 198 | <term><command>avimerge</command></term>
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| 199 | <listitem><para> merges <acronym>AVI</acronym> files of the same format. Do
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| 200 | not try to merge <acronym>AVI</acronym> files of different formats, it will
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| 201 | most likely result in errors (and format means same bitrates, too!).</para>
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[0b5a693] | 202 | <indexterm zone="transcode avimerge">
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[adcfe66f] | 203 | <primary sortas="b-avimerge">avimerge</primary></indexterm>
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| 204 | </listitem>
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| 205 | </varlistentry>
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[01062dd] | 206 |
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[adcfe66f] | 207 | <varlistentry id="avisplit">
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| 208 | <term><command>avisplit</command></term>
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| 209 | <listitem><para>splits <acronym>AVI</acronym> files into multiple files.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 210 | <indexterm zone="transcode avisplit">
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[adcfe66f] | 211 | <primary sortas="b-avisplit">avisplit</primary></indexterm>
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| 212 | </listitem>
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| 213 | </varlistentry>
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| 214 |
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| 215 | <varlistentry id="avisync">
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| 216 | <term><command>avisync</command></term>
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| 217 | <listitem><para>can shift audio in <acronym>AVI</acronym> files for better
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| 218 | synchronizing of the audio and video data signal.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 219 | <indexterm zone="transcode avisync">
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[adcfe66f] | 220 | <primary sortas="b-avisync">avisync</primary></indexterm>
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| 221 | </listitem>
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| 222 | </varlistentry>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <varlistentry id="tccat">
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| 225 | <term><command>tccat</command></term>
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| 226 | <listitem><para>concatenates input files using the input plugins of
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| 227 | <application>Transcode</application>.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 228 | <indexterm zone="transcode tccat">
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[adcfe66f] | 229 | <primary sortas="b-tccat">tccat</primary></indexterm>
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| 230 | </listitem>
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| 231 | </varlistentry>
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| 232 |
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| 233 | <varlistentry id="tcdecode">
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| 234 | <term><command>tcdecode</command></term>
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| 235 | <listitem><para>is used to decode input files to raw video and
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| 236 | <acronym>PCM</acronym> audio streams.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 237 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcdecode">
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[adcfe66f] | 238 | <primary sortas="b-tcdecode">tcdecode</primary></indexterm>
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| 239 | </listitem>
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| 240 | </varlistentry>
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| 241 |
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| 242 | <varlistentry id="tcdemux">
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| 243 | <term><command>tcdemux</command></term>
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| 244 | <listitem><para>demultiplexes (separates) audio/video input that contains
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| 245 | multiple streams, e.g., <acronym>VOB</acronym> files.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 246 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcdemux">
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[adcfe66f] | 247 | <primary sortas="b-tcdemux">tcdemux</primary></indexterm>
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| 248 | </listitem>
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| 249 | </varlistentry>
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| 250 |
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| 251 | <varlistentry id="tcextract">
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| 252 | <term><command>tcextract</command></term>
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| 253 | <listitem><para>grabs single streams from a file containing multiple
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| 254 | streams.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 255 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcextract">
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[adcfe66f] | 256 | <primary sortas="b-tcextract">tcextract</primary></indexterm>
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| 257 | </listitem>
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| 258 | </varlistentry>
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| 259 |
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| 260 | <varlistentry id="tcframe">
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| 261 | <term><command>tcframe</command></term>
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| 262 | <listitem><para>processes single video frames for different color encodings
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| 263 | (<acronym>RGB</acronym> >-< <acronym>YUV</acronym> or similar).</para>
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[0b5a693] | 264 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcframe">
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[adcfe66f] | 265 | <primary sortas="b-tcframe">tcframe</primary></indexterm>
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| 266 | </listitem>
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| 267 | </varlistentry>
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| 268 |
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| 269 | <varlistentry id="tcmodinfo">
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| 270 | <term><command>tcmodinfo</command></term>
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| 271 | <listitem><para>loads a supplied <application>Transcode</application> filter
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| 272 | module and prints its parameters.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 273 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcmodinfo">
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[adcfe66f] | 274 | <primary sortas="b-tcmodinfo">tcmodinfo</primary></indexterm>
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| 275 | </listitem>
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| 276 | </varlistentry>
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| 277 |
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| 278 | <varlistentry id="tcmp3cut">
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| 279 | <term><command>tcmp3cut</command></term>
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| 280 | <listitem><para>is a tool which can cut <acronym>MP3</acronym> streams at
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| 281 | milliseconds positions.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 282 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcmp3cut">
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[adcfe66f] | 283 | <primary sortas="b-tcmp3cut">tcmp3cut</primary></indexterm>
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| 284 | </listitem>
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| 285 | </varlistentry>
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[01062dd] | 286 |
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[adcfe66f] | 287 | <varlistentry id="tcprobe">
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| 288 | <term><command>tcprobe</command></term>
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| 289 | <listitem><para>prints information about the input file format.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 290 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcprobe">
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[adcfe66f] | 291 | <primary sortas="b-tcprobe">tcprobe</primary></indexterm>
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| 292 | </listitem>
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| 293 | </varlistentry>
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| 294 |
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| 295 | <varlistentry id="tcrequant">
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| 296 | <term><command>tcrequant</command></term>
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| 297 | <listitem><para>is a tool which can requantize an <acronym>MPEG</acronym>-2
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| 298 | elementary stream.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 299 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcrequant">
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[adcfe66f] | 300 | <primary sortas="b-tcrequant">tcrequant</primary></indexterm>
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| 301 | </listitem>
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| 302 | </varlistentry>
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[01062dd] | 303 |
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[adcfe66f] | 304 | <varlistentry id="tcscan">
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| 305 | <term><command>tcscan</command></term>
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| 306 | <listitem><para> performs several measurements on the given input data.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 307 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcscan">
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[adcfe66f] | 308 | <primary sortas="b-tcscan">tcscan</primary></indexterm>
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| 309 | </listitem>
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| 310 | </varlistentry>
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| 311 |
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| 312 | <varlistentry id="tcxmlcheck">
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| 313 | <term><command>tcxmlcheck</command></term>
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| 314 | <listitem><para> checks information in a <acronym>SMIL</acronym> input
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| 315 | file.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 316 | <indexterm zone="transcode tcxmlcheck">
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[adcfe66f] | 317 | <primary sortas="b-tcxmlcheck">tcxmlcheck</primary></indexterm>
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| 318 | </listitem>
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| 319 | </varlistentry>
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| 320 |
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[0b5a693] | 321 | <varlistentry id="transcode-prog">
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[adcfe66f] | 322 | <term><command>transcode</command></term>
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| 323 | <listitem><para>is the encoder's user interface that handles the plugins and
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| 324 | other programs, being the glue between the modules. There are several well
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| 325 | documented usage examples on both the homepage and the documentation included
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| 326 | in the package.</para>
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[0b5a693] | 327 | <indexterm zone="transcode transcode-prog">
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[adcfe66f] | 328 | <primary sortas="b-transcode">transcode</primary></indexterm>
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| 329 | </listitem>
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| 330 | </varlistentry>
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[01062dd] | 331 |
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[adcfe66f] | 332 | <varlistentry>
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| 333 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>a52_decore.so</filename></term>
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| 334 | <listitem><para>is used to interface with the
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| 335 | <filename class='libraryfile'>liba52</filename> library for decoding
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| 336 | <acronym>AC</acronym>-3 streams.</para>
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| 337 | </listitem>
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| 338 | </varlistentry>
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| 340 | <varlistentry>
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| 341 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>af6_decore.so</filename></term>
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| 342 | <listitem><para>is a support module used to decode
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| 343 | <filename class='libraryfile'>libaviplay</filename> library supported codecs
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| 344 | and file formats</para></listitem>
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| 345 | </varlistentry>
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| 346 |
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| 348 | <term><filename class='libraryfile'>export/filter/import_*.so</filename></term>
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| 349 | <listitem><para>— depending on the external libraries that are used,
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| 350 | there are a great number of plugins to convert audio and video input to raw
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| 351 | format, process raw video and audio and convert raw audio and video to other
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| 352 | formats to be written into a file type of choice. Read the documentation for
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| 353 | complete information.</para></listitem>
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| 354 | </varlistentry>
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| 355 | </variablelist>
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| 357 | </sect2>
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| 359 | </sect1>
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