annotate TOOLS/midentify.sh @ 28992:947ef23ba798

Test if create_vdp_decoder() might succeed by calling it from config() with a small value for max_reference_frames. This does not make automatic recovery by using software decoder possible, but lets MPlayer fail more graciously on - actually existing - buggy hardware that does not support certain H264 widths when using hardware accelerated decoding (784, 864, 944, 1024, 1808, 1888 pixels on NVIDIA G98) and if the user tries to hardware-decode more samples at the same time than supported. Might break playback of H264 Intra-Only samples on hardware with very little video memory.

#!/bin/sh
#
# This is a wrapper around the -identify functionality.
# It is supposed to escape the output properly, so it can be easily
# used in shellscripts by 'eval'ing the output of this script.
#
# Written by Tobias Diedrich <[e-mail]>
# Licensed under GNU GPL.

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
	echo "Usage: midentify.sh <file> [<file> ...]"
	exit 1
fi

mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify "$@" 2>/dev/null |
	sed -ne '/^ID_/ {
	                  s/[]()|&;<>`'"'"'\\!$" []/\\&/g;p
	                }'