Multicat is a 1 input/1 output application. Inputs and outputs can be network
streams (unicast and multicast), files, character devices or FIFOs. It is thought
to be a multicast equivalent of the popular netcat tool.
Multicat tries to rebuild the internal clock of the input stream; but it wants
to remain agnostic of what is transported, so in case of files the said clock
is stored to an auxiliary file (example.aux accompanies example.ts) while
recording. Other inputs are considered "live", and the input clock is simply
derived from the reception time of the packets.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
version 2 of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This manual page was written by Rémi Duraffort <ivoire at videolan dot org>,
for the Debian project (and may be used by others).