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<title>Contents</title>

<para>The <application>transcode</application> package contains 
<command>transcode</command>, <command>tccat</command>, 
<command>tcdecode</command>, <command>tcdemux</command>, 
<command>tcextract</command>, <command>tcframe</command>, 
<command>tcprobe</command>, <command>tcscan</command>, 
<command>avicodec</command>, <command>avidump</command>, 
<command>avimerge</command>, <command>avisplit</command>, 
<command>avisync</command> and input/filter/output modules.</para>

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<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>transcode</title>
<para><command>transcode</command> is the encoder's user interface that handles
the plugins and other programs, being the glue between the modules.
There are several well documented usage examples on either the homepage
or the documentation included in the package.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>tccat</title>
<para><command>tccat</command> concatenates input files using the input plugins
of <application>transcode</application>.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>tcdecode</title>
<para><command>tcdecode</command> is used to decode input files to raw video 
and pcm audio stream.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>tcdemux</title>
<para><command>tcdemux</command> demultiplexes audio/video input that contains 
multiple streams, e.g. <acronym>VOB</acronym> files.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>tcextract</title>
<para><command>tcextract</command> grabs single streams from a file containing 
multiple streams.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>tcframe</title>
<para><command>tcframe</command> processes single video frames for different 
color encodings (<acronym>RGB</acronym> &gt;-&lt; <acronym>YUV</acronym> or 
similar).</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>tcprobe</title>
<para><command>tcprobe</command> prints information about the input file format.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>tcscan</title>
<para><command>tcscan</command> performs several measurements on the given 
input data.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avicodec</title>
<para><command>avicodec</command> indicates or changes
<acronym>FOURCC</acronym> codec flag in an avi 
file.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avidump</title>
<para><command>avidump</command> dumps audio or video stream of an given 
avifile to stdout (for avi conversion or extraction of audio streams).</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avimerge</title>
<para><command>avimerge</command> merges avi files of the same format. Do not 
try to merge avi files of different formats, it will most likely result in 
errors (and format means same bitrates, too!).</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avisplit</title>
<para><command>avisplit</command> splits avi files into multiple files.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>avisync</title>
<para><command>avisync</command> can shift audio in avi files for better 
synchronizing of audio and video data signal.</para></sect3>

<sect3><title>input/filter/output modules</title>
<para>Depending on the external libraries that are used, there are a great
number of plugins to convert audio and video input to raw format, process
raw video and audio and convert raw audio and video to other formats to be
written into a filetype of choice. Read the documentation.</para></sect3>

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