On Fri, 19 Oct 2012, hannah commodore <hannah@tinfoilhat.net> wrote:
I use this script that comes in the Mplayer source: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2643992/midentify.sh
It pulls out most all of the media metadata and displays it in a way re-usable for shell input. It also doesn't actually play the media, so no pop-ups for 1 frame.
Thanks for that tip. It turns out that it's in the Debian package but for some reason they put it under /usr/share/mplayer/ instead of /usr/bin. So when looking for mplayer binaries I missed it but when looking for what happens to the midentify.sh script it was easy to find. I considered filing a Debian bug report, but there are plenty of open bugs against mplayer so it's probably not worth doing. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/