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Others have included it in their responses, but the quick way with

ffmpeg is just:

ffmpeg -i name.avi
Since there's no output file, ffmpeg prints info about the audio and

video streams and returns an error. If you prefer to do it as a batch,

it might not be convenient, but I use it all the time. I also use

ffmpeg to extract that audio, but that takes a bit more of a command.
-Chuckk
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jonathan Gazeley

 wrote:

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> Hi all,

>

> This is slightly OT for the group, but I hope someone can tell me.

>

> I have thousands of large AVI files and I want a quick way to determine

> from the command line whether their audio is stereo, 5.1, etc.

>

> I've read about ffmpeg and haven't seen anything jumping out at me, and

> it's hard to pick the right search keywords to find relevant pages on

> Google.

>

> Anyone know a trick to get this info? Currently I can do it by

> right-clicking on the file and viewing its properties, but there *has*

> to be a better way...

>

> Cheers,

> Jonathan

>

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