[mythtv-users] Info about recorded files

Paul Harrison mythtv at dsl.pipex.com
Thu Jul 17 10:59:22 UTC 2008


Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:19:20PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:30 PM, David Smiley <dsmiley at mac.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> It's not clear to me how one can find details like the resolution and
>>> encoding type (i.e. MPEG4) for the recording files.  I have a .nuv or two
>>> and many mpgs.  I'd hope that the mythtv interface would somewhere give me
>>> access to all this information but I haven't seen it.
>>>
>>>       
>> Its not in the interface, but ffmpeg -i filename gives some info.
>>     
>
> mplayer -frames 0 -vc null -ao null -vo null -identify filename
>
> is similarly useful.
>
> -dsr-
>
>   
Also if MythArchive is installed you can use mytharchivehelper --getfileinfo

Paul H.



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