I am trying to make a shell script to make it easier to use vdpau on my Blu-Ray backups and need help with the best way to extract video codec information into a variable. I would prefer to use mplayer only (for using it on other computers with less software but I also have mediainfo installed so I can use that Here is what I have so far #!/bin/bash DEFOPTS="-fs -channels 6 -vo vdpau" VCODEC=` (commands) ` if [[ $VCODEC == h264 ]] then mplayer $DEFOPTS -vc ffh264vdpau $1 $2 $3 fi if [[ $VCODEC == mpeg2 ]] then mplayer $DEFOPTS -vc ffmpeg12vdpau $1 $2 $3 fi if [[ $VCODEC == VC-1 ]] then mplayer $DEFOPTS -vc ffvc1vdpau $1 $2 $3 fi
