TSDVBSUB(1)

💖 TSDVBSUB — bestie edition 💖

okay so you found the DVB subtitle dumper and honestly? she's a little legend. this is the tsdvbsub manual page from the General Commands Manual section, and yes, we're doing this together, no cap. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

tsdvbsub — dump DVB subtitling from a stream 🦋

so like. it takes a stream. and it dumps the subtitles out of it. that's the whole job. she's focused. she's iconic. periodt.

🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

tsdvbsub [-err stdout] [-err stderr] [-verbose | -v] [-quiet | -q]
         [-max max_pkts | -m max_pkts] [-pid pid_no] [-prog prog_no]
         in_file | -stdin

look at her. every bracket is a choice, every choice is optional except the file-or-stdin situation at the end, which is giving "you MUST feed me" energy. 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

fr fr, here's the vibe: tsdvbsub parses and dumps the contents of a single DVB subtitling stream, pulled out of a Transport Stream (or a Program Stream). one stream. one subtitle situation. we are not multitasking here bestie.

🍓 Files

• in_file — this is an H.222 Transport Stream file 💖 (but lowkey read the -stdin and -pes notes below, okay? they matter.)

🧚 Stream to extract

• -pid pid_no — output data for the stream with the given pid_no. and listen, if you wanna get spicy with hex, you can do -pid 0x<pid>. the default? she doesn't need you to tell her — [default = the stream will be located from the PMT info] 🌸
• -prog prog_no — program number [default = 1]

🎀 general switches

• -err stdout — write error messages to standard output (this is the default, she's an out-loud kinda girl)
• -err stderr — write error messages to standard error (the Unix traditional way, vintage core 💜)
• -v, -verbose — output informational/diagnostic messages (she gets chatty 💬)
• -q, -quiet — only output error messages (she goes silent mode, mysterious 🫶)
• -stdin — input from standard input, instead of a file (pipe her something, she'll take it)
• -m max_pkts, -max max_pkts — maximum number of TS packets to read

ok wait, one thing — notice -verbose | -v and -quiet | -q are written as either/or in the synopsis, and -max max_pkts | -m max_pkts is too. just saying. read your brackets, bestie. 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• esdots(1),

(yes, the comma is staying. she's part of the aesthetic. iykyk ⭐)

signing off, my love — this little beauty is from Debian, dated October 28, 2015, and she's still serving. go dump some subtitles. slay. 👑💅✨