Selected video codec: vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg H.264) Opening video decoder: FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family stream 1: audio (aac), -aid 0, -alang und MPlayer svn r34540 (Ubuntu), built with gcc-4.7 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team $ mplayer -vo null -ao null -identify -frames 0 input.mp4 You can also directly use mplayer from the command line to get information about a video. If you burn it to a video disc, it may not work. This video does not seem to be compliant with (S)VCD or DVD

Video is compliant with the following formats:

Read options from /home/dev/.tovid/tovid.ini:Īudio is compliant with the following formats: To find out video attributes with tovid, run it as follows. To install tovid on other Linux distros, you can install it from source. To install tovid on Ubuntu or Linux Mint: $ sudo apt-get install tovid Unlike ExifTool, tovid actually probes an input video file (by using MPlayer) to obtain accurate frame rate and video rate. One problem of previously mentioned ExifTool is that the metadata accessed by the tool may be inaccurate or sometimes misleading. This tool can also identify video formats as well. Handler Description : IsoMedia File Produced by Google, 5-11-2011Īnother way to identify video formats is to use tovid command-line tool, which is a command-line tool for creating DVDs. Using exiftool, you can look up the metadata of a given video file easily. The first method to determine video properties is by using exiftool, which is a comprehensive media metadata viewer and editor. In this tutorial, I will describe how to check video formats from the command line on Linux.

However, there are command-line utilities that allow you to determine video properties quickly. Most media player software such as VLC or MPlayer can display properties of a video file being played. If you want to know what video/audio codec are used for the video file you downloaded from somewhere, you can play the video itself. How to identify video formats from command line on Linux

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