[nzlug] Video files

Toby Collett tcollett+lists at plan9.net.nz
Wed Jun 6 11:30:17 NZST 2007


tovid (tovid.sf.net) has an interactive GUI for setting up DVD's and command
line tools if you want to automate it.

Toby

On 6/6/07, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>
> 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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