[MPlayer-users] information about a file

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:29:16PM -0700, Corey Hickey wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Pupeno wrote:
> >[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >Hash: SHA1
> >
> >Is it posible, with mplayer or some other utility to get some information 
> >about a file (a video) without playing it (as fast as posible)...
> >I need information like the fps, the length (in time or frames), and 
> >everything that is posible.
> >Thanks.
> 
> mplayer filename -identify -fps 0 -ao null

You definitely meant -frames 0, not -fps 0. -vo null is also a good
idea!

Rich