HANDY TIP: Using FFprobe for stream analysis

[Milivoj Ivkovic]

Note that you can take advantage of the .csv (or json) outputs provided by ffprobe. They make parsing much easier.

For example, I use this to analyze the bitrate, saving the output into a .csv file for further parsing with Perl, Excel, a graphing tool or whatever:

ffprobe -select_streams V -show_entries frame=pict_type,pkt_size,pkt_pts_time -of csv "$INPUTFILE" > "$INPUTFILE.ffprobe.csv"