On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Pertti Kosunen <pertti.kosunen at pp.nic.fi> wrote: > On 17.4.2010 5:37, Dark Shadow wrote: >> >> 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. > > You can use one for all command line: > -vc ffh264vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffodivxvdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau, > > Comma in end means drop to default if any earlier doesn't work. You can also put all this in a conf file '~/.mplayer/config', heres mine for playing vdpau: [default] vo=vdpau,xv vc=ffh264vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau, cache=65536 fs=1 quiet=1 afm=hwac3 That plays every file I throw at it, and I can just launch with 'mplayer /path/to/media' Cheers Tom