FFPROBE(1)
NAME
ffprobe - FFmpeg based simple media prober
SYNOPSIS
ffprobe [options] input_files
DESCRIPTION
FFprobe is a very simple and portable prober using the FFmpeg libraries
to probe the content of a file.
It may be used to print informations about the format and header of a
multimedia file or stream, the multimedia streams and each single
packet or frame.
- FFprobe output consists in stanza of the form:
- [TAG]
key1=val1
...
keyN=valN
[/TAG] - and is designed in order to be easily parsable by a textual filter.
- FFprobe may be used both as a standalone application or in combination with a textual filter, which is supposed to perform more sophisticated elaboration (e.g. statistics elaboration or plotting).
OPTIONS
- Main options
- -h Show help and exit.
- -version
Show version and exit.
- -L Show license and exit.
- -formats
Show available formats, codecs, protocols, ...
- -pretty
Show every single value using an adequate unit of measure and using more eye-ball parsable prefixes.
- -k Keep going even in case of error, always returns 0.
- -read_packets
Read packets info.
- -read_frames
Read frames info.
- -show_files
Show file info, that is the informations relative to the container.
- -show_frames
Show frames info, implies the option -read_frames and
-read_packets. - -show_streams
Show streams info, that is the informations relative to the
monomedia streams contained in the header. - -show_tags
Show tags info: actually are supported only the track, title,
author, copyright, comment, album, year, and genre tags. - -v number
Set the logging verbosity level.
SEE ALSO
ffmpeg(1), ffserver(1), ffplay(1)
AUTHOR
- Stefano Sabatini