[mythtv-users] I've asked on ffmpeg and mplayer irc channels....perhaps someone here will know...

[Another Sillyname]

On 28 August 2010 03:46, Another Sillyname <anothersname at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 28 August 2010 03:38, Tyler T <tylernt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Something roughly similar to:
>>
>> dd if=my_h264_stream.mkv bs=1M skip=100 count=1 | ffmpeg -i
>>
>> will skip a ways in and then send a chunk to ffmpeg for analysis.
>> Tweak skip= to suit; count may also need to be a bit larger.
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>
> Good idea, I'll try that and let you know..
>
> Thanks
>

That did it.....although for others looking to do the same thing
mplayer still identifies the AC3 characteristics wrongly but I think
it's a mplayer bug!!

ffmpeg gets it correct though!!

Thanks again.