[FFmpeg-user] getting some xml-ish dump while ffprobing a media file's metadata?

Albretch Mueller lbrtchx at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 14:52:07 CET 2011


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 -print_format xml option is giving me an empty xml file
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 what am i mistaking?
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$ ffprobe -print_format xml
/media/sdb1/LklWb/com/youtube/gmcummings/Are_You_Going_With_Me_Quality_Version_Rare_Video~Ip7kEx789n8.flv
ffprobe version N-36301-g81980bf, Copyright (c) 2007-2011 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Dec 31 2011 08:26:41 with gcc 4.6.1
  configuration: --prefix=/media/sdb1/inst/sw
  libavutil      51. 33.100 / 51. 33.100
  libavcodec     53. 49.100 / 53. 49.100
  libavformat    53. 29.100 / 53. 29.100
  libavdevice    53.  4.100 / 53.  4.100
  libavfilter     2. 56.100 /  2. 56.100
  libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
  libswresample   0.  5.100 /  0.  5.100
Input #0, flv, from
'/media/sdb1/LklWb/com/youtube/gmcummings/Are_You_Going_With_Me_Quality_Version_Rare_Video~Ip7kEx789n8.flv':
  Metadata:
    starttime       : 0
    totalduration   : 259
    totaldatarate   : 368
    bytelength      : 11911909
    canseekontime   : true
    sourcedata      : B4A7DD646HH1325136036615908
    purl            :
    pmsg            :
  Duration: 00:04:18.64, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 368 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (Main), yuv420p, 320x240 [SAR 1:1 DAR
4:3], 260 kb/s, 29.92 tbr, 1k tbn, 59.83 tbc
    Stream #0:1: Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16, 107 kb/s
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ffprobe>
</ffprobe>
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 Also ffprobe -version does not include anymore the "built on" and
configuration stanzas. I think it is best if it includes it in both
the version and the regular ffprobe runs
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$ ffprobe -version
ffprobe N-36301-g81980bf
libavutil      51. 33.100 / 51. 33.100
libavcodec     53. 49.100 / 53. 49.100
libavformat    53. 29.100 / 53. 29.100
libavdevice    53.  4.100 / 53.  4.100
libavfilter     2. 56.100 /  2. 56.100
libswscale      2.  1.100 /  2.  1.100
libswresample   0.  5.100 /  0.  5.100
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 thank you
 lbrtchx


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