avinfo(1)

avinfo1

Audio/video file information automatic extractor

Usage

avinfo [FILENAME] [OPTIONS] [TEMPLATE] [OUTPUT]

avinfo [-l=FILELIST] [OPTIONS] [TEMPLATE] [OUTPUT]

avinfo -l- [OPTIONS] [TEMPLATE] [OUTPUT]

avinfo [{--help | --version}]

Overview

Extracts information from FILENAME or files in FILELIST and generates a report.

Options:

-f=extension

forces the use of module associated with extension

-l=list

use filelist (use -l- for stdin)

-i=ms

delay between files in filelist (in ms) (/*TODO*/)

-e=ext

exclude an extension (do not apply associated module)

-m=number

max line length (0 - no restriction)

-s=value

for advanced tuning of modules (/*TODO*/)

-v=name=value

set int. variable 'name' to 'value' (text or number)

External TEMPLATEs:

-th=template

header template (string, use without value to disable)

-thf=filename

get header template from a file

-tb=template

body template (string, use without value to disable)

-tbf=filename

get body template from a file

-tf=template

footer template (string, use without value to disable)

-tff=filename

get footer template from a file

Built-in TEMPLATEs:

--default

used by default

--description

for creating (updating) descrpipt.ion files

--list

for filelist (plain text) generation

--html-list

for filelist (html) generation

--csv-list

for filelist (CSV, e.g. for Excel)

--short

alt. version of --default template

--far

"nice" formated report (for FAR Manager) (contains MS-DOS pseudographic characters)

Output:

-o=file

file to write the report to (default is stdout)

Other OPTIONS:

--help

prints this help page

--version

prints avinfo version and copyright

You can use ':' instead of '=' in all OPTIONS or just omit it.
TEMPLATEs use AVInfo Simple Script (A.S.S.) syntax.

Examples of commands:

avinfo file.ogm --raw
find . -name '*.avi' -print | avinfo -l- --html-list -o=avilist.html
avinfo -l:list -thf:header -tbf=body -tff=footer >report

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

  1. 6.0–7

From avinfo 1.0.a15+20090102-1 in Debian 7 (Wheezy). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.