DVBCUT(1)

✨ DVBCUT ✨

okay bestie, welcome to dvbcut — a Qt application that cuts parts out of DVB streams, and yes it lives in the General Commands Manual section (that's the (1) on the end, iykyk 💅).

🌸 NAME 🌸

dvbcut — Qt application for cutting parts out of DVB streams 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dvbcut [ -idx indexfile ] [ mpegfile ]
dvbcut projectfile
dvbcut -generateidx -idx indexfile mpegfile

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, DVBCUT is a Qt app that lets u pick certain parts of an MPEG transport stream (the kind u get via Digital Video Broadcasting, aka DVB) and save those parts into a single MPEG output file. it's giving ``keyhole surgery'' energy 🫶 — meaning the input video and audio data is mostly kept unchanged, and only very few frames at the beginning and/or end of the selected range get re-encoded so u end up with a valid MPEG file. slay.

here's the tea tho 🍓: DVBCUT needs to create index information on an MPEG file first. so when u load an MPEG transport stream file, it also asks u for a filename of an index file. if u choose an existing file, it gets loaded and used as index if it's suitable. (and "suitable" means dvbcut performs some sanity checks on the index itself and also checks whether the index actually describes the chosen MPEG file 👀.) if u pick a file that doesn't exist yet, dvbcut just creates the necessary index in place. no cap. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -idx indexfile — use indexfile as index. that's it, that's the vibe 🎀
• -generateidx — do not show the graphical user interface, only generate an index. headless mode era 😌

👑 AUTHOR 👑

dvbcut was written by Sven Over <svenover@svenover.de>. iconic behavior, honestly 💜

🦋 and that's the whole page bestie!! this one is from DVBCUT(1), dated November 27, 2005 — yes it's an elder but she ate and left no crumbs 💅✨ go cut some streams, u got this 🫶