OT: extracting codec info from an mpeg video file Solved!
Nigel Ridley
nigel at prayingforisrael.net
Thu Aug 6 13:29:55 UTC 2009
Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> Sorry for the OT questions.
>> I have managed to find on the web a short video clip with a .mpg file extension which plays on an
>> Artech Portable DVD Player :-) I now would like to be able to find out how the said file is built
>> ie. what do I have to do to replicate its make-up.
>> Any cmd line suggestions? I did look through the man pages for ffmpeg but no joy and I also
>> scoured the web but again no joy :-(
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>>
> I'm not sure what all you need, but I find running mplayer with the
> -identify switch gives a lot of information. Run it from command-line
> (it will launch a gui to show the video), then exit the video and look
> at the information it output.
>
> Paul
>
>
Thanks for the tip.
I actually managed to get things working using ffmpeg.
For those that are interested in doing something similar:
ffmpeg -i input_file_name.flv -sameq output_file_name.mpg
For Batch Converting:
for i in *.flv; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -sameq "${i%flv}mpg"; done
Blessings,
Nigel
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