[MPlayer-users] midentify ID_LENGTH wrong on mpegs, another option?

[Steven Adeff]

On 2/1/06, Giacomo Comes <comes at naic.edu> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:22:09AM -0500, Steven Adeff wrote:
> > On 2/1/06, Giacomo Comes <comes at naic.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > mencoder source.mpg -ovc copy -nosound -o /dev/null -quiet 2>&1 | awk
> > > '/^Video stream:/{print $10+$10/$12}'
> > >
> > > Giacomo
> > >
> >
> > doesn't seem to work with PS files...
> >
> > success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x50
> > ============ Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported
> > =============
> > === If this file is an AVI, ASF or MPEG stream, please contact the
> author!
> > ===
> > Cannot open demuxer.
>
> Are you sure the file is ok? It looks like mencoder cannot handle it at
> all.
> Very strange. May be somebody else have a clude about that.
>
> Personally I have always been successful with the command line I give you,
> but I cannot pretend to have tested it with all kind of existing
> multimedia
> file.
>
> Giacomo



figures the first file I try it on happens to be bad... I tried it on 3
other files and it looks to have worked perfectly. Thanks!

--
Steve