NAME
Video::Info::FOO - what is it useful for? an example list:
-video codec
-audio codec
-frame height
-frame width
-frame countand more!
SYNOPSIS
use Video::Info::FOO;
my $video;
$video->vcodec; #video codec
$video->acodec; #audio codec
...DESCRIPTION
What does the module do? What are it's limitations? Is it built on top of other code? If so, what are the details and where can I get it?
METHODS
Video::Info::FOO has one constructor, new(). It is called as: -file => $filename, #your RIFF file -headersize => $headersize #optional RIFF header size to parse Returns a Video::Info::FOO object if the file was opened successfully.
The Video::Info::FOO object to parses the file by method probe(). 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
afrequency() sampling rate of audio streams, in Hertz
astreams() number of audio streams
filename() path file used to create object
filesize() size in bytes of filename()
fps() frames/second
height() frame height in pixels
probe() try to determine filetype
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 width in pixels
... ...
and_so_on() ...BUGS
Audio codec name mapping is incomplete. If you know the name that corresponds to an audio codec ID that I don't, tell the Video::Info::Magic author, Allen Day <allenday@ucla.edu>.
AUTHOR
Copyright (c) 2002
Aladdin Free Public License (see LICENSE for details)
Your Name <your.name@email.address>REFERENCES
List any references that were used to write Video::Info::FOO,
preferrably with URLs.