Re: [OT] Determining Video Formats

[Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: [OT] Determining Video Formats
From: "David G. Mackay" <mackay_d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 03/27/2008 07:43 AM

> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:05 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 08:21 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:26 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:16 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> > > > > I am looking for a way to look at an AVI file and see how it was encoded 
> > > > > with enough detail that I could reproduce the process using transcode or 
> > > > > mencoder. I have a media server (D-Link DSM520) that plays most videos 
> > > > > absolutely perfectly. Some, though, it has trouble keeping audio sync. I 
> > > > > would like to compare the videos that work without issue to those that 
> > > > > have issues to see if I can identify what the differentiator might be. I 
> > > > > should then be able to identify those with problems and re-transcode 
> > > > > them to look like the files without the problem. That is the goal, anyway.
> > > > >
> > > > > I suspect this is real easy but I am just not finding it and I am 
> > > > > completely Googled out. Any pointers in the right direction would be 
> > > > > much appreciated!
> > > > The tovid package ("yum install tovid") has a command called idvid,
> > > > which might be at least part of what you want.
> > > >
> > > > poc
> > > I was/am in a similar situation trying to figure out a way to transcode
> > > videos for my son's Zune. So far the only tool that has worked is crappy
> > > MS Movie Maker. Anyway, I found this windows tool which I think is free:
> > > GSpot. Just google and it should be the first thing returned. 
> > >
> > > I will check out tovid as well!
> > Note that most Linux transcoders are simply frontends to parts of the
> > 'transcode' package, which has a zillion options and can almost
> > certainly do what you want if you can figure it out :-)
> >
> > ffmpeg is also useful and somewhat simpler.
>
> transcode has tcprobe, which tries to get information about audio and
> video from a media source.  He also indicated that he might use
> mencoder, which implies that he might have mplayer as well.  Running
> mplayer in a console with the -v flag set gives you a ton of information
> about what's playing.
>
> Dave
I really appreciate all of the responses so far. The one command that I 
have found that gives me most of what I need is:

mencoder -msglevel all=6 myfile.avi -o /dev/null

It errors out but before it does it drops a lot of information about the 
file.

I will try tcprobe when I get home. I don't have any of the problem 
avi's here at work.

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