NAME
kateenc - create Kate streams from text input
SYNOPSIS
kateenc [-hVrM] [-o outfile] [-l language] [-c category] [-s serial]
[-C tag=value] [-R threshold] [-K threshold] -t filetype [ infile ]
DESCRIPTION
kateenc creates Kate streams from input files (SubRip SRT subtitles,
LRC lyrics, and libkate’s custom description language). When saved to
an Ogg stream (the default behavior), a Kate stream may then be merged
with other Ogg streams (eg, a Theora video) using the oggz tools.
OPTIONS
-h Show command line help.
-V Show version information.
-r Write raw Kate streams (experimental) rather than Kate-in-Ogg.
-M Allow simple HTML-like markup in SRT files. If this parameter is
used, strings such as "<i>" will be interpreted to mean italics,
rather than appear as such. Note that various players interpret
a slightly different set of HTML tags, and some do not.
-o outfile
Write the output Kate stream to the given file name (writes to
stdout if not specified).
-l language
Sets the language for the stream (default is the language
specified in the input, or none).
-c category
Sets the category for the stream (default is the category
specified in the input, or none).
-s serial
Sets the serial number for the output Kate stream (does not
apply to raw streams).
-C tag=value
Adds a comment to encode into the output Kate stream. The
comment must be of the form tag=value, and comply with the
Vorbis comment rules (eg, tag is composed of a particular subset
of ASCII characters, and value is valid UTF-8). Note that you
might have to escape or quote the comment for it to be seen as a
single command line parameter.
-t filetype
Specifies the type of the input (srt, lrc, kate)
-R threshold
Use repeat packets, with the given threshold (in seconds). Data
packets will be repeated at intervals of roughly threshold
seconds, while active.
-K threshold
Use keepalive packets, with the given threshold (in seconds).
Keepalive packets will be emitted when no other packet has been
emitted for roughly threshold seconds.
EXAMPLES
Create a Kate stream for Welsh subtitles from a SubRip file:
kateenc -t srt -l cy -c SUB -o output.ogg input.srt
SEE ALSO
katedec(1), katalyzer(1)