[LAU] Retrieving audio info from a video file
Emiliano Grilli
emiliano.grilli at gmail.com
Tue Feb 9 05:38:49 EST 2010
Jonathan Gazeley <jonathan.gazeley at bristol.ac.uk> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> This is slightly OT for the group, but I hope someone can tell me.
>
> I have thousands of large AVI files and I want a quick way to determine
> from the command line whether their audio is stereo, 5.1, etc.
>
> I've read about ffmpeg and haven't seen anything jumping out at me, and
> it's hard to pick the right search keywords to find relevant pages on
> Google.
>
> Anyone know a trick to get this info? Currently I can do it by
> right-clicking on the file and viewing its properties, but there *has*
> to be a better way...
maybe "mplayer -frame 0 -identify myfile.avi" ?
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
HTH
Ciao
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Emiliano Grilli
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