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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se>
Subject: Re: convert for use on youtube
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On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:24:43 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> On 2014-09-04 13:15, Polytropon wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 23:55:38 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> 
> > You can test with "mplayer -identify <file>" to check what is
> > _actually_ in a file.
> 
> This is a "better" command
> 
> mplayer -frames 0 -identify movie.*, then it wont play the movie, but 
> give you the info.

Exactly, I was searching the manual for that command (because
I remembered there _is_ such a command that doesn't play anything
at all, but print the information desired). :-)




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