
  ffprobe Documentation


    Table of Contents

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    1 Synopsis

    <#Synopsis>
  *
    2 Description

    <#Description>
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    3 Options

    <#Options>
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        3.1 Stream specifiers

        <#Stream-specifiers-1>
      o
        3.2 Generic options

        <#Generic-options>
      o
        3.3 AVOptions

        <#AVOptions>
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        3.4 Main options

        <#Main-options>
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    4 Writers

    <#Writers>
      o
        4.1 default

        <#default>
      o
        4.2 compact, csv

        <#compact_002c-csv>
      o
        4.3 flat

        <#flat>
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        4.4 ini

        <#ini>
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        4.5 json

        <#json>
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        4.6 xml

        <#xml>
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    5 Timecode

    <#Timecode>
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    6 See Also

    <#See-Also>
  *
    7 Authors

    <#Authors>

  *
    Synopsis

    <#Synopsis>
  *
    Description

    <#Description>
  *
    Options

    <#Options>
  *
    Writers

    <#Writers>
  *
    Timecode

    <#Timecode>
  *
    See Also

    <#See-Also>
  *
    Authors

    <#Authors>


    1 Synopsis

ffprobe [options] input_url


    2 Description

ffprobe gathers information from multimedia streams and prints it in
human- and machine-readable fashion.

For example it can be used to check the format of the container used by
a multimedia stream and the format and type of each media stream
contained in it.

If a url is specified in input, ffprobe will try to open and probe the
url content. If the url cannot be opened or recognized as a multimedia
file, a positive exit code is returned.

If no output is specified as output with o ffprobe will write to stdout.

ffprobe may be employed both as a standalone application or in
combination with a textual filter, which may perform more sophisticated
processing, e.g. statistical processing or plotting.

Options are used to list some of the formats supported by ffprobe or for
specifying which information to display, and for setting how ffprobe
will show it.

ffprobe output is designed to be easily parsable by a textual filter,
and consists of one or more sections of a form defined by the selected
writer, which is specified by the output_format option.

Sections may contain other nested sections, and are identified by a name
(which may be shared by other sections), and an unique name. See the
output of sections.

Metadata tags stored in the container or in the streams are recognized
and printed in the corresponding "FORMAT", "STREAM" or "PROGRAM_STREAM"
section.


    3 Options

All the numerical options, if not specified otherwise, accept a string
representing a number as input, which may be followed by one of the SI
unit prefixes, for example: ’K’, ’M’, or ’G’.

If ’i’ is appended to the SI unit prefix, the complete prefix will be
interpreted as a unit prefix for binary multiples, which are based on
powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000. Appending ’B’ to the SI unit
prefix multiplies the value by 8. This allows using, for example: ’KB’,
’MiB’, ’G’ and ’B’ as number suffixes.

Options which do not take arguments are boolean options, and set the
corresponding value to true. They can be set to false by prefixing the
option name with "no". For example using "-nofoo" will set the boolean
option with name "foo" to false.

  *
    Stream specifiers

    <#Stream-specifiers-1>
  *
    Generic options

    <#Generic-options>
  *
    AVOptions

    <#AVOptions>
  *
    Main options

    <#Main-options>


      3.1 Stream specifiers

Some options are applied per-stream, e.g. bitrate or codec. Stream
specifiers are used to precisely specify which stream(s) a given option
belongs to.

A stream specifier is a string generally appended to the option name and
separated from it by a colon. E.g. |-codec:a:1 ac3| contains the |a:1|
stream specifier, which matches the second audio stream. Therefore, it
would select the ac3 codec for the second audio stream.

A stream specifier can match several streams, so that the option is
applied to all of them. E.g. the stream specifier in |-b:a 128k| matches
all audio streams.

An empty stream specifier matches all streams. For example, |-codec
copy| or |-codec: copy| would copy all the streams without reencoding.

Possible forms of stream specifiers are:

stream_index

    Matches the stream with this index. E.g. |-threads:1 4| would set
    the thread count for the second stream to 4. If stream_index is used
    as an additional stream specifier (see below), then it selects
    stream number stream_index from the matching streams. Stream
    numbering is based on the order of the streams as detected by
    libavformat except when a program ID is also specified. In this case
    it is based on the ordering of the streams in the program.

stream_type[:additional_stream_specifier]

    stream_type is one of following: ’v’ or ’V’ for video, ’a’ for
    audio, ’s’ for subtitle, ’d’ for data, and ’t’ for attachments. ’v’
    matches all video streams, ’V’ only matches video streams which are
    not attached pictures, video thumbnails or cover arts. If
    additional_stream_specifier is used, then it matches streams which
    both have this type and match the additional_stream_specifier.
    Otherwise, it matches all streams of the specified type.

p:program_id[:additional_stream_specifier]

    Matches streams which are in the program with the id program_id. If
    additional_stream_specifier is used, then it matches streams which
    both are part of the program and match the additional_stream_specifier.

#stream_id or i:stream_id

    Match the stream by stream id (e.g. PID in MPEG-TS container).

m:key[:value]

    Matches streams with the metadata tag key having the specified
    value. If value is not given, matches streams that contain the given
    tag with any value.

u

    Matches streams with usable configuration, the codec must be defined
    and the essential information such as video dimension or audio
    sample rate must be present.

    Note that in |ffmpeg|, matching by metadata will only work properly
    for input files.


      3.2 Generic options

These options are shared amongst the ff* tools.

-L

    Show license.

-h, -?, -help, --help [arg]

    Show help. An optional parameter may be specified to print help
    about a specific item. If no argument is specified, only basic (non
    advanced) tool options are shown.

    Possible values of arg are:

    long

        Print advanced tool options in addition to the basic tool options.

    full

        Print complete list of options, including shared and private
        options for encoders, decoders, demuxers, muxers, filters, etc.

    decoder=decoder_name

        Print detailed information about the decoder named decoder_name.
        Use the -decoders option to get a list of all decoders.

    encoder=encoder_name

        Print detailed information about the encoder named encoder_name.
        Use the -encoders option to get a list of all encoders.

    demuxer=demuxer_name

        Print detailed information about the demuxer named demuxer_name.
        Use the -formats option to get a list of all demuxers and muxers.

    muxer=muxer_name

        Print detailed information about the muxer named muxer_name. Use
        the -formats option to get a list of all muxers and demuxers.

    filter=filter_name

        Print detailed information about the filter named filter_name.
        Use the -filters option to get a list of all filters.

    bsf=bitstream_filter_name

        Print detailed information about the bitstream filter named
        bitstream_filter_name. Use the -bsfs option to get a list of all
        bitstream filters.

    protocol=protocol_name

        Print detailed information about the protocol named
        protocol_name. Use the -protocols option to get a list of all
        protocols.

-version

    Show version.

-buildconf

    Show the build configuration, one option per line.

-formats

    Show available formats (including devices).

-demuxers

    Show available demuxers.

-muxers

    Show available muxers.

-devices

    Show available devices.

-codecs

    Show all codecs known to libavcodec.

    Note that the term ’codec’ is used throughout this documentation as
    a shortcut for what is more correctly called a media bitstream format.

-decoders

    Show available decoders.

-encoders

    Show all available encoders.

-bsfs

    Show available bitstream filters.

-protocols

    Show available protocols.

-filters

    Show available libavfilter filters.

-pix_fmts

    Show available pixel formats.

-sample_fmts

    Show available sample formats.

-layouts

    Show channel names and standard channel layouts.

-dispositions

    Show stream dispositions.

-colors

    Show recognized color names.

-sources device[,opt1=val1[,opt2=val2]...]

    Show autodetected sources of the input device. Some devices may
    provide system-dependent source names that cannot be autodetected.
    The returned list cannot be assumed to be always complete.

    ffmpeg -sources pulse,server=192.168.0.4

-sinks device[,opt1=val1[,opt2=val2]...]

    Show autodetected sinks of the output device. Some devices may
    provide system-dependent sink names that cannot be autodetected. The
    returned list cannot be assumed to be always complete.

    ffmpeg -sinks pulse,server=192.168.0.4

-loglevel [flags+]loglevel | -v [flags+]loglevel

    Set logging level and flags used by the library.

    The optional flags prefix can consist of the following values:

    ‘repeat’

        Indicates that repeated log output should not be compressed to
        the first line and the "Last message repeated n times" line will
        be omitted.

    ‘level’

        Indicates that log output should add a |[level]| prefix to each
        message line. This can be used as an alternative to log
        coloring, e.g. when dumping the log to file.

    Flags can also be used alone by adding a ’+’/’-’ prefix to set/reset
    a single flag without affecting other flags or changing loglevel.
    When setting both flags and loglevel, a ’+’ separator is expected
    between the last flags value and before loglevel.

    loglevel is a string or a number containing one of the following
    values:

    ‘quiet, -8’

        Show nothing at all; be silent.

    ‘panic, 0’

        Only show fatal errors which could lead the process to crash,
        such as an assertion failure. This is not currently used for
        anything.

    ‘fatal, 8’

        Only show fatal errors. These are errors after which the process
        absolutely cannot continue.

    ‘error, 16’

        Show all errors, including ones which can be recovered from.

    ‘warning, 24’

        Show all warnings and errors. Any message related to possibly
        incorrect or unexpected events will be shown.

    ‘info, 32’

        Show informative messages during processing. This is in addition
        to warnings and errors. This is the default value.

    ‘verbose, 40’

        Same as |info|, except more verbose.

    ‘debug, 48’

        Show everything, including debugging information.

    ‘trace, 56’

    For example to enable repeated log output, add the |level| prefix,
    and set loglevel to |verbose|:

    ffmpeg -loglevel repeat+level+verbose -i input output

    Another example that enables repeated log output without affecting
    current state of |level| prefix flag or loglevel:

    ffmpeg [...] -loglevel +repeat

    By default the program logs to stderr. If coloring is supported by
    the terminal, colors are used to mark errors and warnings. Log
    coloring can be disabled setting the environment variable
    |AV_LOG_FORCE_NOCOLOR|, or can be forced setting the environment
    variable |AV_LOG_FORCE_COLOR|.

-report

    Dump full command line and log output to a file named
    |program-YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS.log| in the current directory. This file
    can be useful for bug reports. It also implies |-loglevel debug|.

    Setting the environment variable |FFREPORT| to any value has the
    same effect. If the value is a ’:’-separated key=value sequence,
    these options will affect the report; option values must be escaped
    if they contain special characters or the options delimiter ’:’ (see
    the “Quoting and escaping” section in the ffmpeg-utils manual).

    The following options are recognized:

    file

        set the file name to use for the report; |%p| is expanded to the
        name of the program, |%t| is expanded to a timestamp, |%%| is
        expanded to a plain |%|

    level

        set the log verbosity level using a numerical value (see
        |-loglevel|).

    For example, to output a report to a file named ffreport.log using a
    log level of |32| (alias for log level |info|):

    FFREPORT=file=ffreport.log:level=32 ffmpeg -i input output

    Errors in parsing the environment variable are not fatal, and will
    not appear in the report.

-hide_banner

    Suppress printing banner.

    All FFmpeg tools will normally show a copyright notice, build
    options and library versions. This option can be used to suppress
    printing this information.

-cpuflags flags (/global/)

    Allows setting and clearing cpu flags. This option is intended for
    testing. Do not use it unless you know what you’re doing.

    ffmpeg -cpuflags -sse+mmx ...
    ffmpeg -cpuflags mmx ...
    ffmpeg -cpuflags 0 ...

    Possible flags for this option are:

    ‘x86’

        ‘mmx’
        ‘mmxext’
        ‘sse’
        ‘sse2’
        ‘sse2slow’
        ‘sse3’
        ‘sse3slow’
        ‘ssse3’
        ‘atom’
        ‘sse4.1’
        ‘sse4.2’
        ‘avx’
        ‘avx2’
        ‘xop’
        ‘fma3’
        ‘fma4’
        ‘3dnow’
        ‘3dnowext’
        ‘bmi1’
        ‘bmi2’
        ‘cmov’

    ‘ARM’

        ‘armv5te’
        ‘armv6’
        ‘armv6t2’
        ‘vfp’
        ‘vfpv3’
        ‘neon’
        ‘setend’

    ‘AArch64’

        ‘armv8’
        ‘vfp’
        ‘neon’

    ‘PowerPC’

        ‘altivec’

    ‘Specific Processors’

        ‘pentium2’
        ‘pentium3’
        ‘pentium4’
        ‘k6’
        ‘k62’
        ‘athlon’
        ‘athlonxp’
        ‘k8’

-cpucount count (/global/)

    Override detection of CPU count. This option is intended for
    testing. Do not use it unless you know what you’re doing.

    ffmpeg -cpucount 2

-max_alloc bytes

    Set the maximum size limit for allocating a block on the heap by
    ffmpeg’s family of malloc functions. Exercise *extreme caution* when
    using this option. Don’t use if you do not understand the full
    consequence of doing so. Default is INT_MAX.


      3.3 AVOptions

These options are provided directly by the libavformat, libavdevice and
libavcodec libraries. To see the list of available AVOptions, use the
-help option. They are separated into two categories:

generic

    These options can be set for any container, codec or device. Generic
    options are listed under AVFormatContext options for
    containers/devices and under AVCodecContext options for codecs.

private

    These options are specific to the given container, device or codec.
    Private options are listed under their corresponding
    containers/devices/codecs.

For example to write an ID3v2.3 header instead of a default ID3v2.4 to
an MP3 file, use the id3v2_version private option of the MP3 muxer:

ffmpeg -i input.flac -id3v2_version 3 out.mp3

All codec AVOptions are per-stream, and thus a stream specifier should
be attached to them:

ffmpeg -i multichannel.mxf -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:0 -map 0:a:0 -c:a:0 ac3 -b:a:0 640k -ac:a:1 2 -c:a:1 aac -b:2 128k out.mp4

In the above example, a multichannel audio stream is mapped twice for
output. The first instance is encoded with codec ac3 and bitrate 640k.
The second instance is downmixed to 2 channels and encoded with codec
aac. A bitrate of 128k is specified for it using absolute index of the
output stream.

Note: the -nooption syntax cannot be used for boolean AVOptions, use
-option 0/-option 1.

Note: the old undocumented way of specifying per-stream AVOptions by
prepending v/a/s to the options name is now obsolete and will be removed
soon.


      3.4 Main options

-f format

    Force format to use.

-unit

    Show the unit of the displayed values.

-prefix

    Use SI prefixes for the displayed values. Unless the
    "-byte_binary_prefix" option is used all the prefixes are decimal.

-byte_binary_prefix

    Force the use of binary prefixes for byte values.

-sexagesimal

    Use sexagesimal format HH:MM:SS.MICROSECONDS for time values.

-pretty

    Prettify the format of the displayed values, it corresponds to the
    options "-unit -prefix -byte_binary_prefix -sexagesimal".

-output_format, -of, -print_format writer_name[=writer_options]

    Set the output printing format.

    writer_name specifies the name of the writer, and writer_options
    specifies the options to be passed to the writer.

    For example for printing the output in JSON format, specify:

    -output_format json

    For more details on the available output printing formats, see the
    Writers section below.

-sections

    Print sections structure and section information, and exit. The
    output is not meant to be parsed by a machine.

-select_streams stream_specifier

    Select only the streams specified by stream_specifier. This option
    affects only the options related to streams (e.g. |show_streams|,
    |show_packets|, etc.).

    For example to show only audio streams, you can use the command:

    ffprobe -show_streams -select_streams a INPUT

    To show only video packets belonging to the video stream with index 1:

    ffprobe -show_packets -select_streams v:1 INPUT

-show_data

    Show payload data, as a hexadecimal and ASCII dump. Coupled with
    -show_packets, it will dump the packets’ data. Coupled with
    -show_streams, it will dump the codec extradata.

    The dump is printed as the "data" field. It may contain newlines.

-show_data_hash algorithm

    Show a hash of payload data, for packets with -show_packets and for
    codec extradata with -show_streams.

-show_error

    Show information about the error found when trying to probe the input.

    The error information is printed within a section with name "ERROR".

-show_format

    Show information about the container format of the input multimedia
    stream.

    All the container format information is printed within a section
    with name "FORMAT".

-show_format_entry name

    Like -show_format, but only prints the specified entry of the
    container format information, rather than all. This option may be
    given more than once, then all specified entries will be shown.

    This option is deprecated, use |show_entries| instead.

-show_entries section_entries

    Set list of entries to show.

    Entries are specified according to the following syntax.
    section_entries contains a list of section entries separated by |:|.
    Each section entry is composed by a section name (or unique name),
    optionally followed by a list of entries local to that section,
    separated by |,|.

    If section name is specified but is followed by no |=|, all entries
    are printed to output, together with all the contained sections.
    Otherwise only the entries specified in the local section entries
    list are printed. In particular, if |=| is specified but the list of
    local entries is empty, then no entries will be shown for that section.

    Note that the order of specification of the local section entries is
    not honored in the output, and the usual display order will be
    retained.

    The formal syntax is given by:

    LOCAL_SECTION_ENTRIES ::= SECTION_ENTRY_NAME[,LOCAL_SECTION_ENTRIES]
    SECTION_ENTRY         ::= SECTION_NAME[=[LOCAL_SECTION_ENTRIES]]
    SECTION_ENTRIES       ::= SECTION_ENTRY[:SECTION_ENTRIES]

    For example, to show only the index and type of each stream, and the
    PTS time, duration time, and stream index of the packets, you can
    specify the argument:

    packet=pts_time,duration_time,stream_index : stream=index,codec_type

    To show all the entries in the section "format", but only the codec
    type in the section "stream", specify the argument:

    format : stream=codec_type

    To show all the tags in the stream and format sections:

    stream_tags : format_tags

    To show only the |title| tag (if available) in the stream sections:

    stream_tags=title

-show_packets

    Show information about each packet contained in the input multimedia
    stream.

    The information for each single packet is printed within a dedicated
    section with name "PACKET".

-show_frames

    Show information about each frame and subtitle contained in the
    input multimedia stream.

    The information for each single frame is printed within a dedicated
    section with name "FRAME" or "SUBTITLE".

-show_log loglevel

    Show logging information from the decoder about each frame according
    to the value set in loglevel, (see |-loglevel|). This option
    requires |-show_frames|.

    The information for each log message is printed within a dedicated
    section with name "LOG".

-show_streams

    Show information about each media stream contained in the input
    multimedia stream.

    Each media stream information is printed within a dedicated section
    with name "STREAM".

-show_programs

    Show information about programs and their streams contained in the
    input multimedia stream.

    Each media stream information is printed within a dedicated section
    with name "PROGRAM_STREAM".

-show_chapters

    Show information about chapters stored in the format.

    Each chapter is printed within a dedicated section with name "CHAPTER".

-count_frames

    Count the number of frames per stream and report it in the
    corresponding stream section.

-count_packets

    Count the number of packets per stream and report it in the
    corresponding stream section.

-read_intervals read_intervals

    Read only the specified intervals. read_intervals must be a sequence
    of interval specifications separated by ",". |ffprobe| will seek to
    the interval starting point, and will continue reading from that.

    Each interval is specified by two optional parts, separated by "%".

    The first part specifies the interval start position. It is
    interpreted as an absolute position, or as a relative offset from
    the current position if it is preceded by the "+" character. If this
    first part is not specified, no seeking will be performed when
    reading this interval.

    The second part specifies the interval end position. It is
    interpreted as an absolute position, or as a relative offset from
    the current position if it is preceded by the "+" character. If the
    offset specification starts with "#", it is interpreted as the
    number of packets to read (not including the flushing packets) from
    the interval start. If no second part is specified, the program will
    read until the end of the input.

    Note that seeking is not accurate, thus the actual interval start
    point may be different from the specified position. Also, when an
    interval duration is specified, the absolute end time will be
    computed by adding the duration to the interval start point found by
    seeking the file, rather than to the specified start value.

    The formal syntax is given by:

    INTERVAL  ::= [START|+START_OFFSET][%[END|+END_OFFSET]]
    INTERVALS ::= INTERVAL[,INTERVALS]

    A few examples follow.

      * Seek to time 10, read packets until 20 seconds after the found
        seek point, then seek to position |01:30| (1 minute and thirty
        seconds) and read packets until position |01:45|.

        10%+20,01:30%01:45

      * Read only 42 packets after seeking to position |01:23|:

        01:23%+#42

      * Read only the first 20 seconds from the start:

        %+20

      * Read from the start until position |02:30|:

        %02:30

-show_private_data, -private

    Show private data, that is data depending on the format of the
    particular shown element. This option is enabled by default, but you
    may need to disable it for specific uses, for example when creating
    XSD-compliant XML output.

-show_program_version

    Show information related to program version.

    Version information is printed within a section with name
    "PROGRAM_VERSION".

-show_library_versions

    Show information related to library versions.

    Version information for each library is printed within a section
    with name "LIBRARY_VERSION".

-show_versions

    Show information related to program and library versions. This is
    the equivalent of setting both -show_program_version and
    -show_library_versions options.

-show_pixel_formats

    Show information about all pixel formats supported by FFmpeg.

    Pixel format information for each format is printed within a section
    with name "PIXEL_FORMAT".

-show_optional_fields value

    Some writers viz. JSON and XML, omit the printing of fields with
    invalid or non-applicable values, while other writers always print
    them. This option enables one to control this behaviour. Valid
    values are |always|/|1|, |never|/|0| and |auto|/|-1|. Default is auto.

-bitexact

    Force bitexact output, useful to produce output which is not
    dependent on the specific build.

-i input_url

    Read input_url.

-o output_url

    Write output to output_url. If not specified, the output is sent to
    stdout.


    4 Writers

A writer defines the output format adopted by |ffprobe|, and will be
used for printing all the parts of the output.

A writer may accept one or more arguments, which specify the options to
adopt. The options are specified as a list of key=value pairs, separated
by ":".

All writers support the following options:

string_validation, sv

    Set string validation mode.

    The following values are accepted.

    ‘fail’

        The writer will fail immediately in case an invalid string
        (UTF-8) sequence or code point is found in the input. This is
        especially useful to validate input metadata.

    ‘ignore’

        Any validation error will be ignored. This will result in
        possibly broken output, especially with the json or xml writer.

    ‘replace’

        The writer will substitute invalid UTF-8 sequences or code
        points with the string specified with the
        string_validation_replacement.

    Default value is ‘replace’.

string_validation_replacement, svr

    Set replacement string to use in case string_validation is set to
    ‘replace’.

    In case the option is not specified, the writer will assume the
    empty string, that is it will remove the invalid sequences from the
    input strings.

A description of the currently available writers follows.

  *
    default

    <#default>
  *
    compact, csv

    <#compact_002c-csv>
  *
    flat

    <#flat>
  *
    ini

    <#ini>
  *
    json

    <#json>
  *
    xml

    <#xml>


      4.1 default

Default format.

Print each section in the form:

[SECTION]
key1=val1
...
keyN=valN
[/SECTION]

Metadata tags are printed as a line in the corresponding FORMAT, STREAM
or PROGRAM_STREAM section, and are prefixed by the string "TAG:".

A description of the accepted options follows.

nokey, nk

    If set to 1 specify not to print the key of each field. Default
    value is 0.

noprint_wrappers, nw

    If set to 1 specify not to print the section header and footer.
    Default value is 0.


      4.2 compact, csv

Compact and CSV format.

The |csv| writer is equivalent to |compact|, but supports different
defaults.

Each section is printed on a single line. If no option is specified, the
output has the form:

section|key1=val1| ... |keyN=valN

Metadata tags are printed in the corresponding "format" or "stream"
section. A metadata tag key, if printed, is prefixed by the string "tag:".

The description of the accepted options follows.

item_sep, s

    Specify the character to use for separating fields in the output
    line. It must be a single printable character, it is "|" by default
    ("," for the |csv| writer).

nokey, nk

    If set to 1 specify not to print the key of each field. Its default
    value is 0 (1 for the |csv| writer).

escape, e

    Set the escape mode to use, default to "c" ("csv" for the |csv|
    writer).

    It can assume one of the following values:

    c

        Perform C-like escaping. Strings containing a newline (‘\n’),
        carriage return (‘\r’), a tab (‘\t’), a form feed (‘\f’), the
        escaping character (‘\’) or the item separator character SEP are
        escaped using C-like fashioned escaping, so that a newline is
        converted to the sequence ‘\n’, a carriage return to ‘\r’, ‘\’
        to ‘\\’ and the separator SEP is converted to ‘\SEP’.

    csv

        Perform CSV-like escaping, as described in RFC4180. Strings
        containing a newline (‘\n’), a carriage return (‘\r’), a double
        quote (‘"’), or SEP are enclosed in double-quotes.

    none

        Perform no escaping.

print_section, p

    Print the section name at the beginning of each line if the value is
    |1|, disable it with value set to |0|. Default value is |1|.


      4.3 flat

Flat format.

A free-form output where each line contains an explicit key=value, such
as "streams.stream.3.tags.foo=bar". The output is shell escaped, so it
can be directly embedded in sh scripts as long as the separator
character is an alphanumeric character or an underscore (see sep_char
option).

The description of the accepted options follows.

sep_char, s

    Separator character used to separate the chapter, the section name,
    IDs and potential tags in the printed field key.

    Default value is ‘.’.

hierarchical, h

    Specify if the section name specification should be hierarchical. If
    set to 1, and if there is more than one section in the current
    chapter, the section name will be prefixed by the name of the
    chapter. A value of 0 will disable this behavior.

    Default value is 1.


      4.4 ini

INI format output.

Print output in an INI based format.

The following conventions are adopted:

  * all key and values are UTF-8
  * ‘.’ is the subgroup separator
  * newline, ‘\t’, ‘\f’, ‘\b’ and the following characters are escaped
  * ‘\’ is the escape character
  * ‘#’ is the comment indicator
  * ‘=’ is the key/value separator
  * ‘:’ is not used but usually parsed as key/value separator 

This writer accepts options as a list of key=value pairs, separated by ‘:’.

The description of the accepted options follows.

hierarchical, h

    Specify if the section name specification should be hierarchical. If
    set to 1, and if there is more than one section in the current
    chapter, the section name will be prefixed by the name of the
    chapter. A value of 0 will disable this behavior.

    Default value is 1.


      4.5 json

JSON based format.

Each section is printed using JSON notation.

The description of the accepted options follows.

compact, c

    If set to 1 enable compact output, that is each section will be
    printed on a single line. Default value is 0.

For more information about JSON, see
http://www.json.org/

.


      4.6 xml

XML based format.

The XML output is described in the XML schema description file
ffprobe.xsd installed in the FFmpeg datadir.

An updated version of the schema can be retrieved at the url
http://www.ffmpeg.org/schema/ffprobe.xsd

, which redirects to the latest schema committed into the FFmpeg
development source code tree.

Note that the output issued will be compliant to the ffprobe.xsd schema
only when no special global output options (unit, prefix,
byte_binary_prefix, sexagesimal etc.) are specified.

The description of the accepted options follows.

fully_qualified, q

    If set to 1 specify if the output should be fully qualified. Default
    value is 0. This is required for generating an XML file which can be
    validated through an XSD file.

xsd_strict, x

    If set to 1 perform more checks for ensuring that the output is XSD
    compliant. Default value is 0. This option automatically sets
    fully_qualified to 1.

For more information about the XML format, see
https://www.w3.org/XML/

.


    5 Timecode

|ffprobe| supports Timecode extraction:

  * MPEG1/2 timecode is extracted from the GOP, and is available in the
    video stream details (-show_streams, see timecode).
  * MOV timecode is extracted from tmcd track, so is available in the
    tmcd stream metadata (-show_streams, see TAG:timecode).
  * DV, GXF and AVI timecodes are available in format metadata
    (-show_format, see TAG:timecode). 


    6 See Also

ffprobe-all

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffprobe-all.html>,
ffmpeg

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg.html>,
ffplay

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffplay.html>,
ffmpeg-utils

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg-utils.html>,
ffmpeg-scaler

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg-scaler.html>,
ffmpeg-resampler

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg-resampler.html>,
ffmpeg-codecs

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg-codecs.html>,
ffmpeg-bitstream-filters

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg-bitstream-filters.html>,

ffmpeg-formats

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg-formats.html>,
ffmpeg-devices

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg-devices.html>,
ffmpeg-protocols

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg-protocols.html>,
ffmpeg-filters

<file:///C:/Utils/ffmpeg-6.1.1-essentials_build/doc/ffmpeg-filters.html>


    7 Authors

The FFmpeg developers.

For details about the authorship, see the Git history of the project
(https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg), e.g. by typing the command |git log| in
the FFmpeg source directory, or browsing the online repository at
https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg

.

Maintainers for the specific components are listed in the file
MAINTAINERS in the source code tree.

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