[MPlayer-users] Re: MPlayer-users Digest, Vol 28, Issue 34

[Kichigai Mentat]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Apr 8, 2006, at 13.07, geoff.mplayer at alphaworks.co.uk wrote:

>
>> From: Thijs Vermeir <thijsvermeir at telenet.be>
>> On 8-apr-06, at 19:30, geoff.mplayer at alphaworks.co.uk wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Is it possible to use MPlayer to get information about a video  
>>>> file  such as the dimensions, frame rate and appropriate MIME  
>>>> type? If  not then can anyone suggest an alternative of doing  
>>>> this on the  command line?
>>>>
>>>
>> mplayer -identify ... ;-)
>
> Ah, easy when you know what to look for, I was searching for all  
> the wrong things on the man page!
>
> That's just what I need but how do I know the possible values of  
> ID_VIDEO_FORMAT ? For the simple MPEG I have here it returns  
> ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000001 and for an AVI from a digital camera I  
> get ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=MJPG

MJPG is a FOURCC shortening of the codec's proper name: MJPEG.

> .
>
> Thanks,
> Geoff
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFEOH74wAwn3hu8KxcRArEPAJ4ijSmPp3UFV11Ff5z0ctd1yon5fQCeJrbA
lAsWtC45SxCW109hZDPdVpM=
=z+0y
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----