ffprobe Command Examples

Multimedia stream analyzer. More information: https://ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html.

• Display all available stream info for a media file:

ffprobe {{[-v|-loglevel]}} error -show_streams {{input.mp4}}

• Display media duration:

ffprobe {{[-v|-loglevel]}} error -show_entries format=duration {{[-of|-output_format]}} default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 {{input.mp4}}

• Display the frame rate of a video:

ffprobe {{[-v|-loglevel]}} error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=avg_frame_rate {{[-of|-output_format]}} default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 {{input.mp4}}

• Display the width or height of a video:

ffprobe {{[-v|-loglevel]}} error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream={{width|height}} {{[-of|-output_format]}} default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 {{input.mp4}}

• Display the average bit rate of a video:

ffprobe {{[-v|-loglevel]}} error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=bit_rate {{[-of|-output_format]}} default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 {{input.mp4}}