[mythtv-users] How can you tell what HD resolution?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On May 14, 2007, at 12:36 PM, John Overchuk wrote:

> How can you tell if your HD recordings are 1080i or 720p?

mplayer -identify /path/to/video.mpg

It will give you something like this:
[mythtv at mythtv ~]$ mplayer -identify /tvrecordings/ 
1202_20070512020037.mpg
MPlayer dev-SVN-rUNKNOWN-3.2.3 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (Family: 15,  
Model: 35, Stepping: 2)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing /tvrecordings/1202_20070512020037.mpg.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  640x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  6000.0 kbps (750.0  
kbyte/s)
ID_FILENAME=/tvrecordings/1202_20070512020037.mpg
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=6000000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=640
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.970
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=80
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=118.42