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Jonathan Gazeley  writes:
> Hi all,

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> 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...

maybe "mplayer -frame 0 -identify myfile.avi" ?
> Cheers,

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> Jonathan

HTH

Ciao
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Emiliano Grilli

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