Ticket #603 (closed enhancement: needs_more_info)

Opened 19 months ago

Last modified 19 months ago

FFmpeg can't display file information

Reported by: zexon Owned by: michael
Priority: normal Component: FFmpeg
Version: unspecified Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

Why FFmpeg cannot show / export file information?

It's ridiculous to use a separate program called FFprobe just to get a few lines of file information. FFprobe is equally as big as FFmpeg, adding another 16 MB to the total size.

FFmpeg retrieves file information anyway, since it needs it to perform the conversion. It could show just the basic info, like file format, number of frames, frame rate, image size, audio format, etc, that can be redirected to a file. Like this:

ffmpeg -info file.mpg > file_info.txt

I'm sure I'm not the only one that wants this.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 19 months ago by cehoyos

  • Keywords file, info, information, display removed

What's wrong with

ffmpeg -i file.mpg 2>file_info.txt

?

Last edited 19 months ago by cehoyos (previous) (diff)

comment:2 Changed 19 months ago by cehoyos

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to needs_more_info

Please reopen if more information can be provided.

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