skvideo.io.ffprobe¶

skvideo.io.ffprobe(filename)[source]¶

get metadata by using ffprobe

Checks the output of ffprobe on the desired video file. MetaData is then parsed into a dictionary.

Parameters:

filenamestring

Path to the video file

Returns:

metaDictdict

Dictionary containing all header-based information about the passed-in source video.

For each codec type present in the file (e.g. video, audio, subtitle), the dictionary contains two entries:

• <type> — the first stream of that type (backward-compatible with the pre-#165 single-stream behavior).

• <type>_streams — a list of all streams of that type, in the order ffprobe reported them. Use this when the file contains multiple streams of the same codec type (issue #165).

Example for a file with one video stream and two audio streams:

info = ffprobe("foo.mkv")
info["video"]            # first (and only) video stream
info["audio"]            # first audio stream
info["audio_streams"]    # list of both audio streams