Printing MPEG Encoding Information with mpgtx

This section provides a tutorial on how to print MPEG encoding information from MPEG files with 'mpgtx'.

The first test I did was to use the "-i" option to print MPEG encoding information from MPEG files.

1. Print MPEG encoding information from a MPEG 1 system file:

C:\temp>\local\bin\mpgtx -i mpeg1vcd.mpeg

  Mpeg 1 System File [Video/Audio]
  Muxrate : 1.41 Mbps
  Estimated Duration: 28.36s
  Size [352 x 240]     29.97 fps    1.12 Mbps
  Audio : Mpeg 1 layer 2
  224 kbps  44100 Hz
  Stereo,  No emphasis

2. Print MPEG encoding information from a MPEG 1 video file:

C:\temp>\local\bin\mpgtx -i tracking.mpeg

  Mpeg 1 Video File
  Estimated Duration: 47.92s
  Aspect ratio 1/1 (VGA)
  Size [720 x 480]     30.00 fps    1.16 Mbps

3. Print MPEG encoding information from a MPEG 2 video file:

C:\temp>\local\bin\mpgtx -i video.m2v

  Mpeg 2 Video File
  Estimated Duration: 52.45s
  Aspect ratio 4/3 (TV)
  Not interlaced, chroma format: 4:2:0
  Video Format: PAL
  Display Size [720 x 576]
  Size [704 x 576]     25.00 fps    7.50 Mbps

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Format

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Players

 Audio CD (Compact Disc Digital Audio or CD-DA) Rip Music

 WAV Audio File Format

 MP3, MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, Encoding Format

 Burning MP3 Music to Audio CD

 Windows Sound Recorder

 ISO 9660 Standard for Data CD

 Recording Data on CD

 VCD (Video CD) Standard

 DVD (Digital Video Disc) Standard Format

 TOC (Table Of Contents) on CDs

 IsoBuster - A Nice CD GUI Tool

 MPlayer - The Movie Player

 vStrip - Rip and Manipulate DVD VOB Files

mpgtx - Manipulating MPEG Files

 Downloading and Installing vStrip

Printing MPEG Encoding Information with mpgtx

 Printing MP3 Encoding Information with mpgtx

 Slicing MPEG Files by Play Time Ranges with mpgtx

 Demuxing (Demultiplexing) MPEG Files with mpgtx

 Splitting/Joining MPEG Files with mpgtx

 CD/DVD - File Name Extension and Format Types

 References

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