mplayer -vo dummy -identication doesn't display audio information

[gctaylor1]

Hi,

When I run "mplayer -vo dummy -identification <filename.mpg>", I don't think this is displaying audio information at least as compared to some of the examples I've seen. The source is a 8 mm camcorder and my ultimate goal is to burn from my camcorder tapes on to DVD whenever I figure out how to do that. I'm capturing directly from an Hauppauge PVR-350 card using
$ cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg

The captured file plays okay in mplayer and gxine.

Playing test_exp.mpg.
ID_VIDEO_ID=0
ID_AUDIO_ID=0
MPEG-PS file format detected.
VIDEO: MPEG2 480x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 6000.0 kbps (750.0 kbyte/s)
SUB: Could not determine file format
Cannot load subtitles: ./test_exp.txt
ID_FILENAME=test_exp.mpg
ID_DEMUXER=mpegps
ID_VIDEO_FORMAT=0x10000002
ID_VIDEO_BITRATE=6000000
ID_VIDEO_WIDTH=480
ID_VIDEO_HEIGHT=480
ID_VIDEO_FPS=29.970
ID_VIDEO_ASPECT=0.0000
ID_AUDIO_FORMAT=80
ID_AUDIO_BITRATE=0
ID_AUDIO_RATE=0
ID_AUDIO_NCH=0
ID_LENGTH=599.50

I've seen other examples that identified the audio as like mpeg 3 or something like that I think. What is my audio?

I'm running Debian Etch.

Thanks,
Gary

[tekkieman]

If you've already done the video capture and just want to create the DVD, I would suggest looking at ManDVD

It's very....Nero-ish. The forum and the screenshots are in French, but it does offer the option of installing in English.

(Sorry I don't have the answer to your audio question)

[gctaylor1]

I found a workaround to my question. I am using idvid from the tovid suite

http://tovid.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page and it is reliable and well done.

tekkieman: thanks for the pointer to ManDVD, it looks interesting.

Gary

[tekkieman]

I found a workaround to my question. I am using idvid from the tovid suite

I use tovid. I should have remembered that.

Sorry.