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

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Saturday 2011-12-31 13:52:07 +0000, Albretch Mueller encoded:
> ~
>  -print_format xml option is giving me an empty xml file
> ~
>  what am i mistaking?

You need to tell what you want to print (-show_streams,
-show_format, -show_packets).

> ~
> $ 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>
> ~

>  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

Dunno, that was a recent change, affecting all the ff* tools.