vcgencmd - Raspberry Pi System Software Reference - page 59

Option codec_enabled
The codec_enabled option reports the operational status of the codecs supported by
the Raspberry Pi. Valid codec names are listed in Table 4-4 . The codec support can be
summarized with the following command:

$ for id in H264 MPG2WCV1 ; do
echo −e "$id: $(vcgencmd codec_enabled $id)";
done
H264: H264=enabled
MPG2: MPG2=disabled
WCV1: WCV1=disabled

Table 4-4. vcgencmd CODEC Names

Name Description

H264 h.264 CODEC

MPG2 MPEG-2 CODEC

WVC1 VC1 CODEC

Option version
The version option reports the GPU firmware version:

$ vcgencmd version
Oct 25 2012 16:37:21
Copyright (c) 2012 Broadcom
version 346337 (release)

Option get_lcd_info
While get_lcd_info was undocumented at the time of this writing, it appears to provide
LCD/monitor width and height, and pixel depth:

$ vcgencmd get_lcd_info
720 480 24