[MEncoder-users] How to determine the codec of AVI file

[Dave M G]

Michel, James, Leopold,

Thank you for responding.

I didn't really want to admit to my friend that some file that played on 
Windows wouldn't play on Linux, so I was willing to try and hammer at 
this for a while. But now I think there is something seriously wrong 
here that is beyond simple codec or format issues.

In any case, here are the outputs of the commands suggested.

$ mplayer -identify video.avi
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.1.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 6, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
control.
Playing video.avi.
MPlayer interrupted by signal 2 in module: demux_open
ID_SIGNAL=2

$ od -bc video.avi | head -20
0000000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
          \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0  \0
*
1275220000

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Dave M G