[OT] Determining Video Formats

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:16 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote:
> I am looking for a way to look at an AVI file and see how it was encoded 
> with enough detail that I could reproduce the process using transcode or 
> mencoder. I have a media server (D-Link DSM520) that plays most videos 
> absolutely perfectly. Some, though, it has trouble keeping audio sync. I 
> would like to compare the videos that work without issue to those that 
> have issues to see if I can identify what the differentiator might be. I 
> should then be able to identify those with problems and re-transcode 
> them to look like the files without the problem. That is the goal, anyway.
> 
> I suspect this is real easy but I am just not finding it and I am 
> completely Googled out. Any pointers in the right direction would be 
> much appreciated!

The tovid package ("yum install tovid") has a command called idvid,
which might be at least part of what you want.

poc