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It supports elementary video +and audio frame transformations, including de-interlacing +or fast resizing of video frames and loading of external filters. +A number of modules are included to enable import of DVDs on-the-fly, +MPEG elementary (ES) or program streams (VOB), MPEG video, +Digital Video (DV), +YUV4MPEG streams, NuppelVideo file format and raw or compressed (pass-through) video frames +and export modules for writing DivX;-), OpenDivX, DivX 4.xx or +uncompressed AVI files with MPEG, AC3 (pass-through) or PCM audio. +Additional export modules to write single frames (PPM) or +YUV4MPEG streams are available, as well as an interface import module + to the <i>avifile</i> library. +It's modular concept is intended to provide flexibility and easy user +extensibility to include other video/audio codecs or file types. +A set of tools is included to demux (<FONT color=red><i>tcdemux</i></font>), extract (<FONT color=red><i>tcextract</i></font>) and decode + (<FONT color=red><i>tcdecode</i></font>) the sources +into raw video/audio streams for import, probing (<FONT + color=red><i>tcprobe</i></font>) and scanning (<FONT + color=red><i>tcscan</i></font>) your sources and to enable post-processing +of AVI files, fixing AVI file header information (<FONT + color=red><i>avifix</i></font>), merging multiple files (<FONT color=red><i>avimerge</i></font>) or splitting +large AVI files (<FONT color=red><i>avisplit</i></font>) to fit on a CD. +<p><p> + + + <b><i>transcode</i></b> plug-in architecture overview:<p> + <i>transcode</i> loads shared library modules that are responsible for feeding it with raw streams and encoding the frames. + <ul> + <li> The <b>import modules</b> for audio/video decoding are loaded with + <i>dlopen</i> system call and are + responsible for starting the video and audio streams (directly or via the + <i>popen</i> system call) and have a single function interface to the main program. + The import is handled by a thread that buffers the video/audio frames.<p> + <li> The main program <b><i>transcode</i></b> currently performs + a number of video/audio frame manipulations (in + this order) or allows simple pass-through of raw frame data: + <p> + + <font size=+2 color=blue>Video:</font> + <ul> + + <li> cut out arbitrary frame region before processing + + <li> de-interlace video frame + + <li> fast enlarging of video width/height by a + multiple of 8/16/32 rows/columns up to 1024x768 + + <li> fast reduction of video width/height by a multiple of 8/16/32 rows/columns + + <li> high-quality resizing with different filtering + + <li> cut out arbitrary frame region for encoding + + <li> fast rescale (down-sample) video width/height by a power of 2 + + <li> flip video frame upside down + + <li> mirror image of video frame + + <li> swap <i>red</i> and <i>blue</i> bytes or chroma + components in video frame + + <li> transform to b/w video frame + + <li> apply gamma correction + + <li> anti-alias video frame + + <li> DVD subtitle overlay (plug-in) + + </ul> + + <p> + <font size=+2 color=blue>Audio:</font> + <ul> + <li> swap byte order in audio stream + <li> change the volume of the audio stream + <li> re-sample audio stream (plug-in) + <li> down-sample to mono + <li> down-sample to 8-bit unsigned byte stream + <li> sync video with audio frames (V=0|A=N, V=1|A=N+1,...) + </ul> + <p> + + <font size=+2 color=blue>Filter Plug-Ins:</font> + <ul> <li>Additional effects are available via <a href=filter.html>external filter plug-ins</a> loaded with option "-J". + </ul><p> + + + <li> The <b>export modules</b> for audio/video encoding + are loaded via the <i>dlopen</i> system call and the + encoder loop is started for the selected frames. In + most cases audio and video are handled by the same + module. + </ul> + + <p> + <b><i>transcode</i></b> supported formats and codecs overview:<p> + + <table cellspacing="10" cellpadding="0" border="0" width="100%"> + <tr> + <td align=center> + <img src="tc.png"> + </td> + </tr> + + <tr><td align=center> + (ES=elementary stream, including + concatenated frames, PES=packetized elementary stream, + including program streams)</tr> + + </table> +<p> + Colored boxes are supported without additional packages. However, most + capabilities are only available in the <i>0.6.0</i> pre-releases. +Unconnected boxes not yet implemented, but <i>0.6.0</i> (final) will + have a symmetrical butterfly structure. + OpenDivX + (obsolete) support included, but much newer and faster DIVX + encoding/decoding requires additional codecs available for linux. + Picture import supported by newer versions of <i>ImageMagick</i> + (0.5.x). Additional optional audio/video import codecs supported by using the + <i>avifile</i> library. Quicktime movie with limited codec + support is available via + the <i>quicktime4linux</i> library. You need <i>libdv</i> + installed to enable Digital Video decoding/encoding. <p> + + + +</tr> + + + + </tr> +</table> +</table> + + + + + + + +<!-- hhmts start --> +Last modified: Fri Nov 29 15:45:16 Europe/Berlin 2002 +<!-- hhmts end --> + +</body> </html> |