[MPlayer-users] let mplayer only give out info

[Nick Koretsky]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:55:05 +0200
Praktikant 03 DADC <Praktikant03 at sonydadc.com> wrote:

> 
> i would like to use mplayer just to give out information about multimedia 
> files (with the -identify flag).
> the file should NOT be played. i tried the flags -nosound, -novideo, -ao 
> null, -vo null. no success.
> then i tried to do something like
>         mplayer file.ext& sleep 2; echo finished
> but the result of that is, that i do not get any output after "Compiled 
> for..." line.
> 
> what should i do to get the disired result?


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