How can I get information about a video with a command-line tool? (e.g. video duration, audio codec, bitrate etc)
You have several commands to get that information:
avprobefrom the packagelibav-toolsis pretty good.
Sample output
avprobe somefile.mp4
avprobe version 0.8.4-4:0.8.4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1, Copyright (c)
2007-2012 the Libav developers built on Nov 6 2012 16:51:33 with
gcc 4.6.3 Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'somefile.mp4':
Metadata:
major_brand : avc1
minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: isomavc1
creation_time : 2012-08-10 15:01:14 Duration: 00:01:02.55, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 682 kb/s
Stream #0.0(und): Video: h264 (High), yuv420p, 1904x1040 [PAR 1:1 DAR 119:65], 680 kb/s, 19.18 fps, 20 tbr, 20 tbn, 40 tbc
Metadata:
creation_time : 2012-08-10 15:01:14
To add to Thunar custom action, in relation to what was suggested
here, the analog formula to add would be:
gnome-terminal --window-with-profile=new1 -e "avprobe %f"
Source: Command to see media file info in terminal? (then, duplicated).
And also you have:
You can use MPlayer to get that information.
$ mplayer -vo null -ao null -identify -frames 0 foo.avi
Source: https://superuser.com/questions/55780/linux-command-line-tool-to-get-bitrate-of-divx-xvid
