A wrapper around the ffprobe command to extract metadata from media files or streams.
Usage:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from ffprobe import FFProbe
# Local file
metadata=FFProbe('test-media-file.mov')
# Video stream
# metadata=FFProbe('http://some-streaming-url.com:8080/stream')
for stream in metadata.streams:
if stream.is_video():
print('Stream contains {} frames.'.format(stream.frames()))This software is now maintained by Mark Ma [email protected].
(The MIT License)
Copyright 2013 Simon Hargreaves [email protected] Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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