---
name: "tccat"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "transcode"
version: "3:1.1.7-9+b4"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tccat"
---

# tccat(1)

concatenate multimedia streams from medium and print on the standard output

## NAME

tccat - concatenate multimedia streams from medium and print on the standard output

## SYNOPSIS

- **tccat**

  **-i** *name* \[ **-t** *magic* \] \[ **-T** *title\[,chapter\[,angle\]\]* \] \[ **-L** \] \[ **-S** *n* \] \[ **-P** \] \[ **-a** \] \[ **-d** *mode* \] \[ **-v** \]

## COPYRIGHT

**tccat** is Copyright (C) by Thomas Oestreich.

## DESCRIPTION

**tccat** is part of and usually called by **transcode**.\
 However, it can also be used independently.\
 **tccat** reads source (from stdin if not explicitely defined) and prints on the standard output. Directory contents is concatenated, if source files have the same format. Multiple AVI-files are also supported.

## 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.  **tccat** usually handles the different types correctly.

- **-t** *magic*

  Tell **tccat** about the type of input.  Currently only **dvd** is supported - any other parameter will be ignored.

- **-T** *title***\[,***chapter*\[**,***angle*\]\]

  Select DVD *title* and extract only a single *chapter* with selected viewing *angle.* Setting the argument *chapter* to **-1** means to process all available chapters on the DVD.\
   If this option is given, the input type of **dvd** will also be assumed (see option **-t**).

- **-L**

  This option tells **tccat** to loop through all chapters starting at the one given with the option **-T**.

- **-S** *n*

  Seek to program stream (VOB) offset *n*x2kB before starting output.

- **-P**

  Stream full DVD title specified by -T.

- **-a**

  Use this option to dump an AVI-file/socket audio stream. The default is to extract and concatenate AVI-file video stream.

- **-d** *level*

  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

**tccat** is a front end for streaming various source types and is used in **transcode**'s import modules.

## EXAMPLES

The command

**tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 \| mplayer -**

reads all chapters belonging to title *1* of a DVD (assuming that /dev/dvd/ is a symbolic link to a real DVD device) and pipes a MPEG program stream into player.

## AUTHORS

**tccat** was written by Thomas Oestreich\
 \<ostreich@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de\> with contributions from many others.  See AUTHORS for details.

## SEE ALSO

[**avifix**(1)](/avifix/1.md), [**avimerge**(1)](/avimerge/1.md), [**avisplit**(1)](/avisplit/1.md), [**tcdecode**(1)](/tcdecode/1.md), [**tcdemux**(1)](/tcdemux/1.md), [**tcextract**(1)](/tcextract/1.md), [**tcprobe**(1)](/tcprobe/1.md), [**tcscan**(1)](/tcscan/1.md), [**transcode**(1)](/transcode/1.md)