utility to give info on codecs

[cweb]

Is there a linux utility which gives information on which codecs are used in an avi (or mkv) ?

[cweb]

Answer to self: mplayer reports this information..
but if anyone knows of a utility, please post just the same.

[SvT]

Try this:

http://www.usinglinux.org/multimedia/avinfo.html

Goodluck !

[mod]

simple: mplayer -frames 0 -identify dummy.file

[lpn1160]

part of Transcode:

tcprobe -i input.xxx

or the old unix workhorse file

file input.xxx

[smok3]

how about mediainfo?
http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download

[WalterK]

or gspot works in linux via wine.

[mindrunner]

or ffmpeg -i filename
avinfo looks interesting tough...

[RR5thN]

mplayer reports this information..

Start VLC and select "Stream and Media Info".

[cweb]

Thanks for all the info--appreciated..

[hiso]

hachoir is really great too -> http://hachoir.org/wiki/hachoir-metadata

[sosonok]

Avinaptic (http://fsinapsi.altervista.org/) gives a lot of technical info, even used codec options, as qpel, gmc, custom matrix type, etc, and can do a "DRF analysis" of ASP and AVC streams and more... It has a simple gtk 1.2 GUI, but is really powerful.

doom9's thread (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123076&highlight=avinaptic)

[skottish]

MP4Info is good.