On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 07:20 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:51:51 -0500 (EST) > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > what i was > > after was pulling together a collection of command-line utilities for > > examining and converting video files of various formats, that's all. > > apparently, i still have some research to do. > > Don't worry, the research will never stop :-), but I find the > mplayer/mencoder stuff from rpmfusion the most complete as far > as supporting weird video formats. The 32 bit version can even > load and run windows codecs, but that rarely seems necessary > lately. Of course, mencoder is also the most complete in terms > of the number of command line options, you can spend weeks > playing with them. There is also a "midentify" script that > just prints info about the file in the same spirit as tcprobe > (but totally different format, of course). And with even less of a manual than tcprobe. Tcprobe is useful to see the length of the video, which midentify doesn't seem to report. I get the feeling all these things are written for people who already know what they're doing :-) Even the tools with man pages are masterpieces of obscurity. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
