I need a command to quickly see in terminal essential information about an audio or video file.
(Then I'll consider adding that to Thunar's custom actions, etc.)
avprobe from the package libav-tools is 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"
