hai all

new here , dirk from the netherlands, using linux for a week now and it takes time to learn but it goes wth hurdle's
so i have a question, i have several dvd programs but i need to find this info (this is an example)

Video Attribute :
Video compression mode : MPEG-2
TV system : 525/60 (NTSC)
Aspect Ratio : 4:3
Display Mode : reserved
Source picture resolution : 720x480 (525/60)
Frame Rate : 29.97
Source picture letterboxed : Not letterboxed
Bitrate : 4.00Mbps

how and where do i find that, using xine gives not all

thx

Hi and welcome to LQ! On the command line you can try
See man file for details.

This looks like "metadata"---similar to what you would find in the EXIF data in an image file. I don't think the "file" utilitiy will see this.
Do some googling using keywords like "metadata" and the file format of the file.

Hi, pixellany! It actually does, perhaps not all the information included in the metadata section, but it could be a good starting point and a fast way to check the video format, e.g.
Cheers!

mplayer displays this information when it loads a file, although there's a lot of other info you have to wade through to get to it!