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Check a media file's container, streams and frame counts with ffprobe
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What this guide covers
Intended for editors, archivists and pipeline authors who must know what a video or audio file holds before they edit, deliver or archive it. The outcome is a saved report with container and stream details and counted frames. It draws on the ffprobe manual, and nothing was run.
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Guide title
Check a media file's container, streams and frame counts with ffprobe
Coverage
Intended for editors, archivists and pipeline authors who must know what a video or audio file holds before they edit, deliver or archive it. The outcome is a saved report with container and stream details and counted frames. It draws on the ffprobe manual, and nothing was run.
Example
A hypothetical, not-run example probes one video stream of a file called clip.mp4 for codec, size and a counted frame total, with no output captured.
Useful starting points
- Probing only reads the file, but counting frames or packets reads the whole stream, so it can be slow on large files.
- Record the ffprobe version with every saved report, because options and output fields can differ between builds.
- When a field you expect is missing, check whether you listed only some entries: unlisted fields are not printed, and the printed order may differ from what you wrote.
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