Any way to search for video files that use a specific encoding?

Rob00 · 10-27-2009, 02:02 PM

Is there an app or find parameter that can search for video files using a specific (DivX for example) encoding?

On Windows, you can do this, so I was hoping there would be some way on Linux whether it's with find or another app.

I think my question made sense, but to make sure:

I want to find all (*.avi OR *.divx) on my file system with the DiVX fourcc tag (i think that's what its called)

repo · 10-27-2009, 02:12 PM

you can use file

Code:

file movie.avi | grep DiVX

Rob00 · 10-27-2009, 02:47 PM

Thanks, that seems to be a useful command, but is there a way to go through an entire file system from / ? When I typed file *.avi it just does the current directory.

repo · 10-27-2009, 03:13 PM

Perhaps something like

Code:

for i in `find / -name *.avi`; do file $i | grep DViX; done

Rob00 · 10-27-2009, 04:38 PM

That almost works but there are lots of spaces and it delimits spaces.

Is there an easy way to make it work with spaces without using SED? If I do have to use SED, how do I replace a space with
"\ "
? I tried but couldn't figure it out. I know how to use sed a little but, but not that well.