Description:

transcode is a linux text-console utility for video stream processing,
running on a platform that supports shared libraries and threads. Decoding
and encoding is done by loading modules that are responsible for feeding
transcode with raw video/audio streams (import modules) and encoding the
frames (export modules). 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;-), DivX
4.02/5.xx, XviD, Digital Video, MPEG-1/2 or uncompressed AVI files with
MPEG, AC3 (pass-through) or PCM audio. More file formats and codecs for
audio/video import are supported by the avifile library import module, the
export with avifile is restricted to video codecs only, with MPEG/PCM or AC3
(pass-through) audio provided by transcode. Limited Quicktime export support
and DVD subtitle rendering is also avaliable.

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 available to extract, demultiplex and decode the sources into raw
video/audio streams for import, non AVI-file export modules for writing
single frames (PPM) or YUV4MPEG streams, auto-probing and scanning your
sources and to enable post-processing of AVI files, including header fixing,
merging multiple files or splitting large AVI files to fit on a CD.

More information and usage examples can be found on the original author's
home page at

http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/

Written by Thomas streich <ostreich@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de>
Currently maintained by Tilmann Bitterberg <transcode@tibit.org>
See the Authors file for contributions from the linux community.
See the file COPYING for license details.