Video file properties on the command line?

[scruffy72]

Hi

Anyone know a way to get a summary of video file properties from the command line? mplayer will give you all the details but it always plays the video.

I'd like it to look similar to the properties window you get when you right-click the file from the GUI, I just can't find any tool to do it.

Thanks

[cazo]

Try with something like:

mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify filename.avi | grep "^ID"

Leave off the ' | grep "^ID" ' if you want to see all the info mplayer shows.

[Dies]

Not sure how much info you actually want, but have you tried file?

@Fedora Movies]$ file The\ Fifth\ Element.avi
The Fifth Element.avi: RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 560 x 240, 25.00 fps, video: XviD, audio: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (stereo, 48000 Hz)

[scruffy72]

Thanks alot for the answers. I had no idea about file. That's perfect for what I had in mind.

[daneel971]

There are also a bunch of container-specific info utilities, such as avinfo, ogminfo, MP4info, mkvinfo (or mkvmerge with the "-i" switch)

[daviddoria]

Hmm neither file or the mplayer command seem to show the length of the video - any idea how to find that?

Also even when mplayer is playing a video it shows the frame its on.. but it says 200/200, then 201/201 - it doesn't keep the "out of" number constant, it just moves both along together.

[sathishkumarkp]

To get the video and audio file properties, I usually use mediainfo. This is available for all major linux distributions.

[marko]

That link says you can simply do a "yum install mediainfo" but that doesn't work, it's not in the repositories as far as I can see.

[smr54]

ffprobe will give duration.

It's provided by the ffmpeg package.

I'm not familar with mediainfo.

[sathishkumarkp]

@ Marko, you can also download mediainfo package from here and install it using rpm commands.

Note : It requires libmediainfo0 and libzen0 packages. So install those package before and intsall mediainfo

rpm -ivh mediainfo.x.x.rpm

Please let me know if you find any issues

[anishjp]

To get the video and audio file properties, I usually use mediainfo. This is available for all major linux distributions.

Download the rpm from http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en/Download/Fedora for your version of fedora.

then as root

yum install --nogpgcheck mediainfo-gui-0.7.53.******.rpm