NAME
RIFF::Info - Probe DivX, AVI, and ASF files for attributes like:
-video codec
-audio codec
-frame height
-frame width
-frame countand more!
SYNOPSIS
use RIFF::Info;
my $video;
$video = RIFF::Info->new($filename); #like this
$video = RIFF::Info->new($filename,$headersize); #or this
$self->probe; #parse the video file
$video->vcodec; #video codec
$video->acodec; #audio codec
...DESCRIPTION
METHODS
RIFF::Info has one constructor, new(). It must be called with a filename, and an optional header size (see BUGS). Returns a RIFF::Info object if the file was opened successfully.
Call probe() on the RIFF::Info object to parse the file. This does a series of sysread()s on the file to figure out what the properties are.
Now, call one (or more) of these methods to get the low-down on your file:
method returns
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achans() number of audio channels
acodec() audio codec
acodecraw() audio codec numeric ID
arate() audio bitrate
astreams() number of audio streams
fps() frames/second
height() frame width in pixels
scale() video bitrate
type() type of file data. RIFF or AVI.
vcodec() video codec
vframes() number of frames
vrate() video bitrate
vstreams() number of video streams
width() frame height in pixelsBUGS (AKA FEATURES)
The default header_size() (10K) may not be large enough to successfully extract the video/audio attributes for all RIFF files. If this module fails you, consider increasing the RIFF header size. If it still fails, let me know.
Audio codec name mapping is incomplete. If you know the name that corresponds to an audio codec ID that I don't, tell me.
AUTHOR
Allen Day <allenday@ucla.edu> Copyright (c) 2002, Allen Day
You may enjoy this module under the same terms as Perl itself.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This was written with liberal snarfing from transcode, a linux video stream processing tool available from:
http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/