ESMERGE(1)

💖 ESMERGE(1) 💖

okay bestie, pull up a chair, because this is the General Commands Manual entry for esmerge and it's about to be your whole personality for the next five minutes ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

esmerge — merge the contents of two ES to make a TS

like... two Elementary Streams walk into a bar and leave as one Transport Stream. it's giving glow-up. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

esmerge [-err stdout] [-err stderr] [-verbose | -v] [-quiet | -q] [-x]
        [-h264 | -avs] [-vidrate video_hz] [-rate audio_hz | -cd | -dat]
        [-adts | -l2 | -mp2adts | -mp4adts | -ac3]
        [-patpmtfreq pat_freq] video_file audio_file out_file

that's the whole vibe in one code block, no cap 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the whole point of this icon is: you take two Elementary Stream (ES) files — one with video data, one with audio — and you smoosh them together into one output file that's a Transport Stream (TS). matchmaker energy fr fr 💖

📁 Files 📁

• video_file — this is the ES file containing video. the visuals. the cinema. 🎬
• audio_file — this is the ES file containing audio. the sound. the vibes. 🎧
• out_file — this is the resultant TS file. the baby. the main character. 👑

🎛️ Switches 🎛️

• -err stdout — write error messages to standard output (this is the default, bestie)
• -err stderr — write error messages to standard error (the Unix-traditional way, old-school cool 🕰️)
• -stdin — input from standard input, instead of a file. yes, it's a pipe situation. we love a pipe situation 🪈
• -v, -verbose — output extra information about each audio/video frame. she's chatty, she's telling you everything 💬
• -q, -quiet — only output error messages. she's mysterious, she's silent, she's ✨selectively present✨
• -x — output diagnostic information. the tea ☕
• -h264 — the video stream is H.264 (this is the default)
• -avs — the video stream is AVS
• -vidrate video_hz — video frame rate in Hz — defaults to 25Hz.
• -rate audio_hz — audio sample rate in Hertz — defaults to 44100, i.e., 44.1KHz.
• -cd — equivalent to -rate 44100 (CD rate), the default. retro but make it classic 💿
• -dat — equivalent to -rate 48000 (DAT rate).
• -adts — the audio stream is ADTS (this is the default)
• -l2 — the audio stream is MPEG layer 2 audio
• -mp2adts — the audio stream is MPEG-2 style ADTS regardless of ID bit
• -mp4adts — the audio stream is MPEG-4 style ADTS regardless of ID bit
• -ac3 — the audio stream is Dolby AC-3 in ATSC
• -patpmtfreq pat_freq — PAT and PMT will be inserted every pat_freq video frames. by default, pat_freq = 0 and PAT/PMT are inserted only at the start of the output stream. so if you leave it alone, they show up once at the beginning and then mind their own business 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

esdots(1),

(yes, there's a comma. yes, it's just vibing there alone. iconic, honestly 💀)

⚠️ BUGS ⚠️

for the moment, the video input must be H.264 or AVS, and the audio input must be ADTS, AC-3 ATSC or MPEG layer 2. also, the audio is assumed to have a constant number of samples per frame. no cap, that's the rule, don't come for me 😭

Debian 🍓 October 28, 2015 🍓 that's the source, that's the version, that's the date — and that's the whole manpage, bestie. go merge something gorgeous. mwah 💋✨🌈