[vdr] Re: OT: Tool to read avi header information

[Hans-Peter Raschke <Hans-Peter.Raschke@Wintermann-DatenService.de>]

Hello,

Karsten Mueller wrote:
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> Hi,
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> mplayer could do the trick. It's a bit dirty, but it works...
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> Try:
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> 	mplayer your-movie.avi -wid 42 2>&1 |egrep "^VIDEO|^AUDIO"
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> which produces (parseable) lines like:
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> VIDEO:  [DIV3]  352x264  24bpp  29.97 fps  680.8 kbps (83.1 kbyte/s)
> AUDIO: srate=44100  chans=2  bps=2  sfmt=0x10  ratio: 8000->176400
> 
> Maybe it'd be better to add some kind of an "-info" switch to mplayer
> instead of the "(hopefully) nonexistent window" trick ... ;)

use the option -frames 0.

HP

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> JM2¢
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> Karsten Mueller
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> 
> On Monday 06 May 2002 22:12, you wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm looking for a tool to read the avi header to extract such information
>>as frames/s, resolution, etc.
>>
>>Does anyone know such a thing?
>>
>>I've been searching with google but couldn't find anything for Linux.
>>
>> [...]