On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:36:48 +0200 Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> wrote: > Or explicitly: > > $ ffprobe -hide_banner -show_format -show_streams inputfile | grep -E "(format|codec)_(|long_)name" No need for grep: ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream=codec_name,codec_long_name:format=format_name,format_long_name input