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

[James Darnley]

On 2012-07-10 18:37, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
> Pavan Kulkarni <pavanvkbgm <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Is there a way to specify what metadata fields I need. For instance I need
>> the duration of the video, width and height etc.
> 
> I don't think duration, width and height are metadata.
> (or are they?)

They are metadata in the broadest sense of the word (data that describes
data) but they aren't in the metadata structure, which is probably what
you mean.  At least they weren't the last time I looked.