[Oche Ejembi]

Turns out the good people developing ffmpeg recently added a graphing tool written in Perl and using Gnuplot and ffprobe.

In the latest repo, you can find it in tools/plotframes. Its simple enough to use and gives quite impressive graphs on X11. Currently looking for how to maintain that same quality

.ffmpeg/tools/plotframes -i video.mp4 [-t svg -o video.svg]

The -t and -o flags are optional and sets the terminal and the output file respectively. A lot of options are available to set the terminal from the gnuplot manual or typing set terminal within the gnuplot environment

[Oche Ejembi]

Thanks a lot for this. I wish I’d seen this a few hours earlier. would have save me some time. I upgraded and it worked.

WIll definitely post if I can script the graphing although I think you’ve done a great job already.

[Oche Ejembi]

Just in case this helps anyone. I upgraded to the latest version of ffmpeg and I get the pkt_size information with the show-frames tag.

[Oche Ejembi]

Hey!

I am sorry to be the guy to comment on a 3 year old thread, but I have to ask.

My version of ffprobe (ffprobe version 0.11.1) -show-frames doesn’t show the size of frames (it does for packets though). Any ideas on what I can do? What’s the relationship between packets and frames?

This is a sample from my output

##################FRAME#####################
[FRAME]
media_type=video
key_frame=0
pkt_pts=784784
pkt_pts_time=0:00:26.159467
pkt_dts=784784
pkt_dts_time=0:00:26.159467
pkt_pos=20156243
width=1920
height=1080
pix_fmt=yuv420p
sample_aspect_ratio=N/A
pict_type=P
coded_picture_number=784
display_picture_number=0
interlaced_frame=0
top_field_first=0
repeat_pict=0
reference=0
[/FRAME]

##################PACKET#####################
[PACKET]
codec_type=video
stream_index=0
pts=789789
pts_time=0:00:26.326300
dts=789789
dts_time=0:00:26.326300
duration=1001
duration_time=0:00:00.033367
size=24.804688 Kibyte
pos=20354166
flags=_
[/PACKET