On 02/09/2010 11:26 AM, Maarten de Boer wrote: >> 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? > > The option is -frames, not -frame, and you can use the null output > devices to run this on a headless machine. > > mplayer -identify -frames 0 -vo null -ao null movie.avi > > maarten > > Thanks Maarten. I also found an app in the Fedora repo called themonospot which does what I want. Cheers, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
