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I'd like to see from command line all informations pertaining to a given video file, including length, quality, bitrate, resolution, audio and video formats, number and language of audio streams and subtitles, and so on; the more, the best.

Aizaz Khan
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    Possible duplicate of [How to retrieve video file information from command line under Linux?](https://superuser.com/questions/595177/how-to-retrieve-video-file-information-from-command-line-under-linux) – Giacomo1968 Jan 20 '19 at 19:07
  • Quick answer: Try using `exiftool` or `ffmpeg -i`. Each should work but each presents the details differently and with different depth. – Giacomo1968 Jan 20 '19 at 19:43
  • The video is captured by the FPGA programmed as a UVC device and I need to extract the details of the video that has been compressed by my FPGA – Aizaz Khan Jan 25 '19 at 02:58

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You can use mediainfo to output majority of the information anyone would require of a video file; at least I would imagine so. Simply:

mediainfo "<inputfile>"

I once had to frequently setup ffmpeg commands in a shell script setup to run while away, and a zenity window made this alot easier as well. I used:

mediainfo "<inputfile>" | zenity --text-info

So then I could hightlight the info and just drag and drop it to nano, on the terminal window directly. Worked great.

J. Cravens
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