a52dec(1)

🎀 a52dec — decode ATSC A/52 audio streams 🎀

okay bestie, so this is from the General Commands Manual, and the whole vibe is a52dec ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

a52dec [-h] [-s [track]] [-t pid] [-c] [-r] [-o mode] [file]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

a52dec plays ATSC A/52 audio streams. and like — if you don't hand it a file, it just reads from stdin, which honestly? main character energy of it to just vibe and wait for input 🫶

• -h — show the help and all the audio modes you can pick from. literally your first move, no cap 💅
• -s — use the program stream demultiplexer, with track 0-7 or 0x80-0x87. so many tracks, so little time 🦋
• -t pid — use the transport stream demultiplexer, with pid 0x10-0x1ffe. yes those are hex, yes we're flexing 🔥
• -c — use the c implementation, which disables all accelerations. cute and slow, we respect it 😭
• -r — disable dynamic range compression. take the audio exactly as it comes, raw, unbothered 🌸
• -o mode — use the audio output driver mode. wanna see the list? run -h, it's all right there for you bestie ✨

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

the icons who made this happen 👑:

• Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org>
• Aaron Holtzman <aholtzma@ess.engr.uvic.ca>
• and many others on the net 💜

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found something broken? don't suffer in silence, report bugs to <liba52-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> 🐛

🍓 COPYRIGHT 🍓

Copyright © 2000-2003 Michel Lespinasse
Copyright © 1999-2000 Aaron Holtzman

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

⚠️ and there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. like none. zero. don't come for them if it breaks 🙈

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• extract_a52(1) — the sibling, go check it out bestie 💖

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that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — from the a52dec manual, a52dec(1), and yes it's filed under a52dec in the footer too because consistency is iconic ✨🎀