FFPROBE(1)FFPROBE(1)NAMEffprobe - FFprobe media prober
SYNOPSISffprobe [options] [input_file]
DESCRIPTION
FFprobe gathers information from multimedia streams and prints it in
human- and machine-readable fashion.
For example it can be used to check the format of the container used by
a multimedia stream and the format and type of each media stream
contained in it.
If a filename is specified in input, ffprobe will try to open and probe
the file content. If the file cannot be opened or recognized as a
multimedia file, a positive exit code is returned.
FFprobe may be employed both as a standalone application or in
combination with a textual filter, which may perform more sophisticated
processing, e.g. statistical processing or plotting.
Options are used to list some of the formats supported by ffprobe or
for specifying which information to display, and for setting how
ffprobe will show it.
FFprobe output is designed to be easily parsable by a textual filter,
and consists of one or more sections of the form:
[SECTION]
key1=val1
...
keyN=valN
[/SECTION]
Metadata tags stored in the container or in the streams are recognized
and printed in the corresponding ``FORMAT'' or ``STREAM'' section, and
are prefixed by the string ``TAG:''.
OPTIONS
Generic options
These options are shared amongst the ff* tools.
-L Show license.
-h, -?, -help, --help
Show help.
-version
Show version.
-formats
Show available formats.
The fields preceding the format names have the following meanings:
D Decoding available
E Encoding available
-codecs
Show available codecs.
The fields preceding the codec names have the following meanings:
D Decoding available
E Encoding available
V/A/S
Video/audio/subtitle codec
S Codec supports slices
D Codec supports direct rendering
T Codec can handle input truncated at random locations instead of
only at frame boundaries
-bsfs
Show available bitstream filters.
-protocols
Show available protocols.
-filters
Show available libavfilter filters.
-pix_fmts
Show available pixel formats.
-loglevel loglevel
Set the logging level used by the library. loglevel is a number or
a string containing one of the following values:
quiet
panic
fatal
error
warning
info
verbose
debug
Main options
-convert_tags
Convert the tag names in the format container to the generic FFmpeg
tag names.
-f format
Force format to use.
-unit
Show the unit of the displayed values.
-prefix
Show a SI prefixes of the displayed values. Unless
``-byte_binary_prefix'' option is used all the prefix are decimal.
-byte_binary_prefix
Force the use of binary prefixes for byte values.
-sexagesimal
Use sexagesimal format HH:MM:SS.MICROSECONDS for time values.
-pretty
Prettify the format of the displayed values, it corresponds to the
options ``-unit -prefix -byte_binary_prefix -sexagesimal''.
-show_format
Show information about the container format of the input multimedia
stream.
All the container format information is printed within a section
with name ``FORMAT''.
-show_streams
Show information about each media stream contained in the input
multimedia stream.
Each media stream information is printed within a dedicated section
with name ``STREAM''.
SEE ALSOffmpeg(1), ffplay(1), ffserver(1)
2010-06-15 FFPROBE(1)
