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multicat is a 1 input/1 output application. Inputs and outputs can
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be network streams (unicast and multicast), files, directories,
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character devices or FIFOs. It is thought to be a multicast equivalent
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of the popular netcat tool. Typical applications are recording live
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transport streams, or playing out TS files without modification.
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Also it is able to record a continuous stream into a directory,
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rotate the files periodically, and make seamless extracts from it.
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Multicat tries to rebuild the internal clock of the input stream;
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but it wants to remain agnostic of what is transported, so in case
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of files the said clock is stored to an auxiliary file (example.aux
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accompanies example.ts) while recording. Other inputs are considered
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"live", and the input clock is simply derived from the reception
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time of the packets.
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WWW: http://www.videolan.org/projects/multicat.html
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