tcprobe
is part of and usually called by transcode.
However, it can also be used independently.
tcprobe reads source (from stdin if not explicitely defined) and
prints on the standard output.
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. tcprobe usually handles the different types
correctly.
-B
Binary output to stdout for use in transcode.
-T title
Probe for DVD
title
-Hn
This option tells tcprobe to scan n MB of input data. Default
is to scan 1 MB. To detect all subtitles and audio tracks (if available) it is
highly recommended that this n should be at least increased to 10 or even
higher. Very often only some audio tracks start during the first MB of a VOB or
DVD file so transcode cannot detect them if not called with a higher value.
Please note that transcode(1) has a similar -H option as well which has the
same meaning.
-sn
Skip the first n bytes of the input stream. Default is to skip no bytes.
-bbitrate
Set audio encoder bitrate to bitrate
-f seekfile
Read index/seek information from seekfile. This is especially useful for
AVI files when it takes a long time to probe when there is no index in the AVI
available. Also see aviindex(1).
-dlevel
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
tcprobe is a front end for probing various source types and is used in transcode╢s import modules.
EXAMPLES
The command
tcprobe -i foo.avi
will print interesting information about the AVI file itself and its video and
audio content.
