[Shell Programming] FPS of a movie and changing modeline?

[Berni]

Hi,
I have two questions regarding shell script programming:
1. With what command can I determine the fps of an avi movie? mplayer displays it but I need to know the fps before playing the movie.
2. I've got two modelines in my xorg-config. One is for playing back ntsc movies and one for pal. How can I change to a specific modeline in a script?

[c0balt]

Hi,
I have two questions regarding shell script programming:
1. With what command can I determine the fps of an avi movie? mplayer displays it but I need to know the fps before playing the movie.
2. I've got two modelines in my xorg-config. One is for playing back ntsc movies and one for pal. How can I change to a specific modeline in a script?

1. thats not really related to bash scripting.
2. That sounds really weird, why would you want to to that? Bad picture?

[Berni]

Hi,
1. thats not really related to bash scripting.
2. That sounds really weird, why would you want to to that? Bad picture?

Servus
1. to what is it related?
2. No the picture itself isn't really bad. But playing back an ntsc-movie with my voodoo3-tvout set at PAL lets the video get a little bit stuttering sometimes. Adjusting the playback speed helps but has other negative side-effects regarding audio etc. So the only real solution is to change the mode to ntsc. I already found a good script for this problem here http://www.richard.neill.hemscott.net/chres so I only need a solution for point 1...

[c0balt]

I see, TVout, that explains everything =)

regarding point 1, a programm that shows the FPS of a movie I guess o_0

[Berni]

Right, but I most somehow get this information into the script from the external program (which one?)...

[Berni]

Ok I found a program called avinfo which does what I want.