I use mediainfo at the moment.
It's too detailed
$ mediainfo vine.mp4 | wc -l
66
I wish a command with only short summary. 6 lines of output.
First define a shell function:
shortinfo() {
mediainfo --Inform="General;Duration=%Duration/String3%
File size=%FileSize/String1%" "$@"
mediainfo --Inform="Video;Resolution=%Width%x%Height%
Codec=%CodecID%" "$@";
}
Now, use this shell function on your video file. For example:
$ shortinfo sample.mp4
Duration=00:00:10.027
File size=13 MiB
Resolution=1920x1080
Codec=avc1
To make the shell function permanent, place it in your ~/.bashrc file.
mediainfo allows for custom output but, as far as I can tell, the custom output can only come from one section (general, video, audio) at a time. This leads us to need two mediainfo commands. The first selects information from the general category:
mediainfo --Inform="General;Duration=%Duration/String3%
File size=%FileSize/String1%" "$@"
The second selects information from the Video category:
mediainfo --Inform="Video;Resolution=%Width%x%Height%
Codec=%CodecID%" "$@";
As you can see, the output allows us to insert any text we like and then substitute in file parameters using a string surrounded by percent signs, such as %CodecID%. Information can be put on one line or spread out over several. To insert a line break, use the string
For a list of all the possible file parameters that you can put in your custom output, run:
mediainfo --info-parameters | less
