On 02/09/2010 10:38 AM, Emiliano Grilli wrote: > Jonathan Gazeley<jonathan.gazeley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> Hi all, >> >> This is slightly OT for the group, but I hope someone can tell me. >> >> I have thousands of large AVI files and I want a quick way to determine >> from the command line whether their audio is stereo, 5.1, etc. >> >> I've read about ffmpeg and haven't seen anything jumping out at me, and >> it's hard to pick the right search keywords to find relevant pages on >> Google. >> >> Anyone know a trick to get this info? Currently I can do it by >> right-clicking on the file and viewing its properties, but there *has* >> to be a better way... >> > > maybe "mplayer -frame 0 -identify myfile.avi" ? > > > >> Cheers, >> Jonathan >> > HTH > Ciao > > Thanks for your advice. Unfortunately this seems to require a graphical machine, but I'm trying to run this on a headless fileserver that has all my media. [jonathan@zeus ~]$ mplayer -frame 0 -identify movie.avi Creating config file: /home/jonathan/.mplayer/config Unknown option on the command line: -frame Error parsing option on the command line: -frame MPlayer SVN-r29701-4.4.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team Any other ideas? Many thanks, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
