[nzlug] Video files

[Daniel Pittman]

Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> writes:

> I've been encoding avi files into mpegs suitable for dvd's of late.
> It's all terribly repetitive and so I thought a bash script might be
> able to sort out the task for me. I can't seem to find a command line
> application that can report back the aspect ratio of a avi file. Does
> anyone know of a command that can do this?

mplayer has an appropriate mode, designed for shell parsing.

ffmpeg, as noted by another correspondent, can output this.

The file command will output the size from the AVI header.  

transcode includes tools that can report this.

Regards,
        Daniel
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