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

[Alexander Roalter]

Alexander Bokovikov wrote:
> 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. 

doesn't -identify -frames 0 do the job?

I'm not sure which information are wanted, even more info can be 
gathered with -v.