I'm probing a video file to get some basic information. For example, the following uses the show_entries flag to specify the necessary data.
> ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=size,duration:stream=codec_name,bit_rate video.mp4 I also need to get the TAG:rotate entry, but this does not working as the semicolon mixes with the syntax of the show_entries flag.
> ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=size,duration:stream=codec_name,bit_rate,TAG:rotate output.mp4 No match for section 'rotate' Failed to set value 'format=size,duration:stream=codec_name,bit_rate,TAG:rotate' for option 'show_entries': Invalid argument Is there a way to fix the syntax? The only other solution is not to specify the individual entries and just get all the data.
1 Answer
You can use stream_tags for metadata tags stored in the stream:
Some examples and results:
ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream_tags=rotate -of csv=p=0 input.mp4 90 ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream_tags=rotate -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 input.mp4 TAG:rotate=90 ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream_tags=rotate:format=size,duration:stream=codec_name,bit_rate -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 input.mp4 codec_name=h264 bit_rate=39761 TAG:rotate=90 duration=5.000000 size=27114 In addition there is format_tags for metadata tags stored in the container (global metadata).
