ESREVERSE(1)

✨ ESREVERSE(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to esreverse, a page from the General Commands Manual section, and it is literally giving "make my video go backwards" energy 💅 iykyk

💖 NAME 💖

esreverse — bestie it reports on the contents of an ES (that's an elementary stream, keep up 🫶)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

esreverse [-err stdout] [-err stderr] [-verbose | -v] [-quiet | -q]
          [-host host[:port]] [-max max_frames | -m max_frames]
          [-freq frame_freq] [-tsout] [-pes -|-ts] [-server] [-x]
          [-h264 | -avc | -h262] in_file out_file | -stdout

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the whole vibe: it outputs a reversed stream derived from the input H.264 (MPEG-4/AVC) or H.262 (MPEG-2) elementary stream. yes. backwards. iconic behaviour honestly ✨

If the output is going to an H.222 Transport Stream, then it uses fixed values for the PMT PID (0x66) and the video PID (0x68). no cap, those are the numbers 🎀

📁 Files 📁

• in_file — this is the input elementary stream, the lil guy you're feeding in 🍓
• out_file — this is the output stream, and it can be either an equivalent elementary stream or an H.222 Transport Stream — but bestie, peep -stdout and -host below, because they change everything 💀

🎀 Switches 🎀

• -err stdout — write error messages to standard output. this is the default, the one the program just does 🫶
• -err stderr — write error messages to standard error. the Unix traditional choice, old school, kind of a serve honestly 👑
• -v, -verbose — output additional (debugging) messages. for when you're nosy, and valid for it 🔥
• -q, -quiet — only output error messages. minimalism. main character energy, no filler 💅
• -stdout — write output to <stdout> instead of a named file. heads up: this forces -quiet and -err stderr, so it's not asking, it's telling 😭
• -host host[:port] — writes output (over TCP/IP) to the named <host> instead of to a named file. if <port> isn't specified it defaults to 88. this one implies -tsout ✨
• -max max_frames | -m max_frames — maximum number of frames to read. that's the cap, periodt 🛑
• -freq frame_freq — specify the frequency of frames to try to keep when reversing. it defaults to 8 🌈
• -tsout — output H.222 Transport Stream 📦
• -pes, -ts — the input file is TS or PS, to be read via the PES to ES reading mechanisms. different pipeline, same dreams 🧚
• -server — also output as normal forward video as reversal data is being collected. this one implies -pes and -tsout 🌸
• -x — temporary extra debugging information. it's giving "temporary", so don't get attached 🙈

🔍 Stream type: 🔍

If the input is from a file, then the program will look at the start of the file to determine if the stream is H.264 or H.262 data.

⚠️ bestie listen: this process may occasionally come to the wrong conclusion. lowkey embarrassing for it. in which case you, the user, can override the choice using the following switches 💪

• -h264, -avc — force the program to treat the input as MPEG-4/AVC ⭐
• -h262 — force the program to treat the input as MPEG-2 💜

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

esdots(1),

and that's the whole page bestie, go reverse something 🎀✨

this lil gem comes from the Debian fam, dated October 28, 2015 — so yeah, it's been slaying since 2015 and honestly? still iconic 💖 bye 🦋