[MPlayer-users] Using mplaye rto extract info from avi files.

[Hans de Groot]

Okay 

I found a tool called mediainfo that show loads of info about a media
file.

Including alle the encoding options.





On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:42:21 +0100
Hans de Groot <hansg at dandy.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I use
> 
> /usr/bin/mplayer -vo null -ao null -msglevel identify=9 -frames 0 somemovie.avi
> 
> to get information from an avi file to about how it is encoded.
> 
> This workes fine for me. I used to detect files that had the audio
> encoded with Software: Lavf53.2.0.
> 
> My media player refuses to play it properly so I use a script re recode
> the audio.
> 
> But now I get more and more avi files (xvid) that it refused to play.
> 
> BUt I cannot see any differences between a avi that plays and that does
> not play when using the line above.
> 
> I remember now that I encoded a few movies to avi xvid that also refused
> to play properly. that was because I enabled global motion compensation
> or some other xvid options my player does not like.
> 
> I have been searching for a while now but I did not find a linux
> solution so far to extract those detaield encoding options from an avi 
> (xvid) file.
> 
> Is there a way to do this with mplayer? 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Hans
> 
> 
> 
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