[MPlayer-users] How to get mediafile info and then exit?

[Alexander Bokovikov]

Hi, Everybody,

FFMPEG had a very useful side effect: it shows the source file info and then 
is terminated if you assign the only "-i <input file>" parameter. It is very 
helpful to use it as a media file format detector. Unfortunately MPlayer has 
no similar features. It always wants the output file. Could MPlayer 
developers add anything like FFMPEG feature, described above? E.g. it would 
be great to have a command line like:
mplayer --info <source-file>, which call would just produce the detailed 
file info (all found streams with their format names and parameters). What 
you think about it?

Thanks.