14 Feb
2021
14 Feb
'21
9:52 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 08:23:09 +0000, Ian Stewart wrote:
You forgot ffprobe. ;)
Oh dear...
$ ffprobe -h has about 2000 options.
Most of that is actually irrelevant to its main function. The man page is more helpful. It’s a very useful tool for analyzing a media file. First of all it breaks down the file into the individual tracks/streams, then it can tell you where all the packets for each stream are--their locations in the file, and their associated movie timestamps (“presentation timestamp” or PTS). Did you notice it can format its output in a number of handy ways, including XML and JSON?