[solved] mplayer - don't play, only show info?

Question

I'm trying to get maplyer mplayer/mencoder to just show me what streams are available in a file. There's a lot of useful info reported when I start a file simply typing mplayer file name but I can't find the option to a) display specific info and b) not to start playing the file. Any help?
Last edited by chochem (2008-09-22 18:36:53)

Answer 1

Oh, okay. Here's starting an OGM file with two audio tracks and one embedded subititle stream:
[mads@BENWAY Miyazaki]$ mplayer princess\ mononoke.ogm
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.3.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 6)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
115 audio & 237 video codecs
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing princess mononoke.ogm.
[Ogg] stream 0: video (FOURCC XVID), -vid 0
[Ogg] stream 1: audio (Vorbis), -aid 0
[Ogg] stream 2: audio (Vorbis), -aid 1
[Ogg] stream 3: subtitles (SRT-like text subtitles), -sid 0
Ogg file format detected.
VIDEO: [XVID] 640x336 12bpp 25.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
Clip info:
Name: Princess Mononoke
Software: Made with BeSweet v1.5b28
Encoder URL: http://DSPguru.doom9.org
Language: English[eng]
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)
==========================================================================
==========================================================================
Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders
[Ogg] Language for -sid 0 is '-slang "English[eng]"'
Demuxer info Language changed to English[eng]
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 120.0 kbit/7.81% (ratio: 15000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [ffvorbis] afm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg Vorbis decoder)
==========================================================================
AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 640 x 336 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.90:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 640x336 => 640x336 Planar YV12
A: 2.0 V: 2.0 A-V: -0.000 ct: -0.028 52/ 52 3% 0% 0.4% 0 0 99%
Exiting... (Quit)
There isn't really a problem with the playback and all I Have to do is stop it, go back over the output and add "-aid 1" and "-sid 0" as arguments and everything plays nciely. It 's just that I'd like to script it for ease of use.