Re: [LAU] Retrieving audio info from a video file

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
<jonathan.gazeley@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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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