-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Gazeley wrote: > 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? There's 'xjinfo' which comes with http://xjadeo.sf.net/ It's a small commandline-tool to extract information from any media file which ffmpeg can read. For some example output see: http://rg42.org/oss/xjadeo/xjinfo HTH, robin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktxXC0ACgkQeVUk8U+VK0KYLgCgp5StMh8IRM9wb0z960wytVW6 qJwAoIsh2ad3Gc1dMaMtGT65fRUdztOB =9NRU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
