Video profiling utilities - shot in the dark
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Video profiling utilities - shot in the dark
I have used Gspot and MediaInfo, two good utilities to extract media data about video or audio files (codec, frame size, bitrate, aspect ratio, etc.). Both of these work in batch mode and can analyze files on my machine, but neither can profile files on server disks. I'm looking for something similar that can either do this remotely or can run in Unix (Solaris, specifically). Java Media Framework does not support WMV formats, and I need to profile WMV and QT. Anybody do much of this?
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Re: Video profiling utilities - shot in the dark
Have you looked at mplayer/mencoder? They're designed around batch/offline encoding and decoding and are filesystem-agnostic, and while they're a bit fiddly they might do what you need (and they have all sorts of stuff for getting at non-open file formats like WMV).
They were written for Linux but should work in Solaris as well, although if you're using the various non-free CODECs (probably necessary for WMV) you'll probably need to be on an x86 box (which I realize is not mutually-exclusive with Solaris).
They were written for Linux but should work in Solaris as well, although if you're using the various non-free CODECs (probably necessary for WMV) you'll probably need to be on an x86 box (which I realize is not mutually-exclusive with Solaris).