[FFmpeg-user] Optimal method to capture both metadata and thumbnails for video files

[Roger Pack]

> Currently I'm using FFMPEG (stand alone) for thumbnails and have cross
> compiled metadata (present in example directory of FFMPEG) source code and
> used it to generate meta data such as duration, height, width, creation
> date/time etc. I wanted to check if I could optimize it in some way..
> Many Thanks!

does ffmpeg stand alone give you all the metadata you need, in its
stdout/stderr output?
-r