On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Ramit Bhalla <ramitbhalla at gmail.com> wrote: > Or you could just use ffmpeg -i <filename> > > ffprobe is more flexible If you are doing this programmatically then don't forget that you can customize the output: ffprobe -show_streams -print_format json file.mkv Cheers Tom