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+Miscellaneous tools and utilities for UG
+========================================
+
+Astat
+-----
+
+Sample application demonstrating parsing audio volume statistics from the control port.
+
+Not useful alone.
+
+
+Convert
+-------
+
+Command-line tool providing UltraGrid pixel format conversions from command-line.
+
+
+stacktrace\_addr2line.sh
+------------------------
+
+Shell tool to parse UltraGrid stack trace (produced when UG crashes).
+
+
+uyvy2yuv422p
+------------
+
+Simple conversion from UYVY to planar YUV 4:2:2 (i420) utilized eg. by FFmpeg.
+