.\" Man page for repeatts
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.\" Copyright (C) GPL 2001, Convergence Integrated Media GmbH
.\" Copyright (C) GPL 2003..2005, Oskar Schirmer
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.TH repeatts 1 "2006-12-09" "1.1.1" "Multiplexer"
.SH NAME
repeatts \- repeater for ISO 13818 transport streams
.SH SYNOPSIS
repeatts [\fB-i\fR] [\fB-d delay\fR] [\fB-t time\fR] [\fIfilename\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Take a regular file containing an ISO 13818-1 conforming transport stream
and send it periodically to \fIstdout\fR.
When a \fIfilename\fR is given, \fBdelay\fR or \fBtime\fR must
be given, too.
When no \fIfilename\fR is given, \fB-i\fR is obligatory.
The transport stream data from \fIfilename\fR is sent to \fIstdout\fR
within \fBtime\fR msec, evenly distributed, split up into
transport stream packets of 188 bytes each.
.P
The following options are accepted:
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
Display this help.
.TP
\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
Output version information.
.TP
\fB\-i\fR
During operation, accept commands from stdin, in form of a tupel:
\fBdelay\fR, \fBtime\fR, \fIfilename\fR. Here, \fBdelay\fR may be
set to 0 to suppress repeatition, to -1 to quit the program.
When feeding another \fBdelay time filename\fR tuple to \fIstdin\fR,
the file currently processed will be replaced by the next file, as
soon as the current file is completely processed.
.TP
\fB\-d delay\fR
The requested operation shall be repeated every \fBdelay\fR msec.
When omitted, the data is sent only once.
.TP
\fB\-t time\fR
The transport stream data shall be sent evenly distributed within
\fBtime\fR msec.
The default value for \fBtime\fR is \fBdelay\fR.
\fBtime\fR must not be greater than \fBdelay\fR.
.SH EXAMPLE
To send file \fIexample.TS\fR every 5 seconds,
with the whole file sent within 2 seconds (and thus
thereafter 3 seconds of inactivity):
.IP
$ repeatts -d 5000 -t 2000 example.TS > some.pipe
.PP
.SH DETAILS
Whenever a tuple is given via \fIstdin\fR, this overrides any
tuple given to \fIstdin\fR earlier, that is not yet worked on, i.e. only
one tuple is memorized at a time.
.SH BUGS
to be detected.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR ISO\ 13818-1 ,
.BR iso13818ts (1).
.SH AUTHOR
Oskar Schirmer (schirmer@scara.com).