[FFmpeg-user] Get the codec used

[Rossana Guerra]

2012/5/24 Stefano Sabatini <stefasab at gmail.com>

> On date Thursday 2012-05-24 04:01:40 -0300, Rossana Guerra encoded:
> > Hello, I'd like to get te codec being used by an avi file.
> > I thought it was with the -i option, but it wasn't i used this option
> with
> > twi .AVI that have different codec and I don't see the difference.
>
> You can use ffprobe -show_streams for getting the codec name used in
> the streams (along with more information), in a parser-friendly way
> (check also the -print_format option).
> --
>

Thanks Stefano, I'll try this later.

Regards

Rossana


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