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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.