KATEDEC(1)

🎀 KATEDEC(1) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to katedec from libkate — this is section 1 of the manual, and she is serving decoder realness 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

katedec — decodes Kate streams to a textual description 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

katedec [-hVv] [-o outfile] [-t type] [ infile ]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so katedec takes your Kate streams and decodes them into libkate's custom description language. that's it, that's the gig, and she ate 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h — show command line help. like, help me help you 💖
• -V — show version information. the receipts, the lore, the origin story ✨
• -v — increase verbosity. turn the volume UP, she's talking more now 🗣️
• -o outfile — write the output description file to the given file name (writes to stdout if you don't specify anything). and ooooh bestie, you can write to multiple files (say, if your input contains several Kate streams) by passing printf style formatting tags in the filename. formatting tags are strings starting with a % character, followed by the tag itself. the known tags are:
  • % — replaced by a verbatim % character
  • l — replaced by the stream language
  • c — replaced by the stream category
  • s — replaced by the stream serial number, in hexadecimal format
  • i — replaced by the index of the stream in the input file, starting from 0
• -t type — set the output format type:
  • kate: Kate description format 👑
  • srt: SubRip format (non text information will be lost) 😭

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✨ EXAMPLES ✨

decodes a Kate stream to a textual description:

katedec -o output.kate input.ogg

decodes several multiplexed Kate streams to SubRip files:

katedec -t srt -o output.%l.kate input.ogg

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

kateenc(1), katalyzer(1) — the whole friend group fr fr 🫶

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libkate 0.4.3 · 01 september 2008

and that's the page, bestie — no cap, every single flag accounted for 💜 mwah, go decode something iconic 🌸