On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 05:51:51 -0500 (EST)
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> what i was after was pulling together a collection of command-line
> utilities for examining and converting video files of various
> formats, that's all. apparently, i still have some research to do.
Don't worry, the research will never stop :-), but I find the
mplayer/mencoder stuff from rpmfusion the most complete as far as
supporting weird video formats. The 32 bit version can even load and
run windows codecs, but that rarely seems necessary lately. Of
course, mencoder is also the most complete in terms of the number of
command line options, you can spend weeks playing with them. There
is also a "midentify" script that just prints info about the file in
the same spirit as tcprobe (but totally different format, of
course).
yeah, "midentify" was sort of what i was after, thanks. back to
research.
rday
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