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  getting video specs using ffmpeg

  Posted by Peter Robertson on June 8, 2012 at 5:01 pm

  Is it possible to use ffmpeg to get the specs of an input file (bitrate, size, pixel format, codec etc.)?

  How would I do this?

  Pedro

  Pedro

  Stephen Dixon replied 13 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Stephen Dixon

  June 10, 2012 at 12:34 pm

  ffprobe. It comes with ffmpeg, just like ffplay.

  ffprobe /[path/to/your/video.mov

  For extra laffs you can redirect the stderr to stdout and pipe it to grep and/or sed if you’re using it as part of a larger application, eg:

  ffprobe ~/mymovie.mov 2>&1 |grep Duration|sed "s/[A-z :]*\([0-9:.]*\).*/\1/"
00:00:50.66

  The sed example above uses OSX’s curious sed implementation, you may not need to escape the brackets.

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