[MPlayer-users] Re: DVD fixes

[Fredrik Kuivinen]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:14:22PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote:
> >> BTW: Would it be feasible to have an option for mplayer like "-probe"
> >> which just outputs some information about the file/dvd, like bitrate,
> >> subtiles, audio-channels, etc. but does _not_ play the file? 
> 
> > rtfm. -frames 0
> 
> Yes, this works, but I was dreaming of a small program, with only the
> file detection routines from mplayer in it, which would run w/o the need
> of having the codecs and stuff installed and more important doesn't need
> any X.
>

mplayer -vo null -frames 0
don't require X.

/Fredrik Kuivinen