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
2010-09-04