[Gllug] Command line tool to find video dimensions?

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Sun, June 3, 2007 15:51, Nix wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2007, salsaman at xs4all.nl said:
>> On Sat, June 2, 2007 19:45, Nix wrote:
>>> You also probably don't want to throw stderr away, and the stdin
>>> redirection is a bit of a waste of time.
>>
>> stdin redirection is very necessary. Read the manpage for mplayer.
>
> I tried to read it but my head burst.


Well, actually I was lying...it's in the mplayer FAQ:

Q:

How can I run MPlayer in the background?
A:

Use:

mplayer options filename < /dev/null &



(This is indeed necessary because mplayer reads keyboard commands from
stdin).


Regards,
Gabriel.
http://lives.sourceforge.net


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