[MPlayer-users] Determining video details?

[Alexander Roalter]

Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> mplayer is able to detect details about the video like
> 
> - length in time
> - Height and width
> - scaling factor
> - audio and video bitrates
> - audio and video encoding
> 
> 
> but it is rather difficult to determine these facts from an
> shellscript, since mplayer opens a windows, runs the video, and hides
> information in  some crowded output or even OSD. 
> 
> Would be nice if mplayer had a mode/command option, or if there was
> an additional program which can be called with any given video file, 
> prints all these informations in a format easy to parse to stdout, 
> and then exits.
> 
> regards
> Hadmut

Use mplayer <filename> -identify -vo null -ao null -frames 0

it will give you everything you want, heck, you could even lose the 
-identify...

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cheers,
Alex