On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:07:15 +0100 Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote: > On 12/14/2009 11:18 PM, James Board wrote: > > Yes, 'mplayer -identify' will work, but it also tries to play the video. Can I tell mplayer to simply display that same information, then exit (so I can capture the output into a file and right a Perl script to RIP the file correctly)? > > mplayer -frames 0 > > stops before playing anything -frames 0 used to work, but at some point it started causing mplayer to fail to collect some information, eg the aspect ratio, so I use: mplayer -identify -frames 1 -ao null -vo null -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk
