simonh10 / ffprobe

A wrapper around the ffprobe command for extracting meta data from media files.

ffprobe python module

A wrapper around the ffprobe command to extract metadata from media files.

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2013 Simon Hargreaves [email protected] Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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ffprobe's Issues

MP3s with cover-art are listed as video

MP3 cover art is listed in ffprobe as a motion jpeg stream with 0 frames.
This causes isVideo to return true for mp3s.
My current work around is to call frames() instead.
I'm not sure if checking TAG:title=cover would work, it may not be consistent across encoders / taggers?

Output of ffprobe is below

ffprobe -show_streams Garoad\ -\ VA-11\ HALL-A\ Prologue\ OST\ -\ Sounds\ From\ The\ Future\ -\ 14\ Follow\ The\ Trail.mp3
ffprobe version 1.2.6-7:1.2.6-1~trusty1 Copyright (c) 2007-2014 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Apr 26 2014 18:52:58 with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)
  configuration: --arch=amd64 --disable-stripping --enable-avresample --enable-pthreads --enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-version='7:1.2.6-1~trusty1' --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --enable-bzlib --enable-libdc1394 --enable-libfreetype --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enable-libgsm --enable-libmp3lame --enable-librtmp --enable-libopencv --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-vaapi --enable-vdpau --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enable-zlib --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-libcdio --enable-x11grab --enable-libx264 --shlibdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --enable-shared --disable-static
  libavutil      52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
  libavcodec     54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
  libavformat    54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
  libavdevice    53.  5.103 / 53.  5.103
  libavfilter     3. 42.103 /  3. 42.103
  libswscale      2.  2.100 /  2.  2.100
  libswresample   0. 17.102 /  0. 17.102
  libpostproc    52.  2.100 / 52.  2.100
[mp3 @ 0x130f020] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5015510 microseconds
Input #0, mp3, from 'Garoad - VA-11 HALL-A Prologue OST - Sounds From The Future - 14 Follow The Trail.mp3':
  Metadata:
    title           : Follow The Trail
    artist          : Garoad
    track           : 14
    album           : VA-11 HALL-A Prologue OST - Sounds From The Future
    album_artist    : Garoad
    date            : 2014
  Duration: 00:02:50.81, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 262 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: mp3, 44100 Hz, stereo, s16p, 254 kb/s
    Stream #0:1: Video: mjpeg, yuvj444p, 700x700 [SAR 72:72 DAR 1:1], 90k tbr, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
    Metadata:
      title           : cover
      comment         : Cover (front)
[STREAM]
index=0
codec_name=mp3
codec_long_name=MP3 (MPEG audio layer 3)
profile=unknown
codec_type=audio
codec_time_base=1/44100
codec_tag_string=[0][0][0][0]
codec_tag=0x0000
sample_fmt=s16p
sample_rate=44100
channels=2
bits_per_sample=0
id=N/A
r_frame_rate=0/0
avg_frame_rate=0/0
time_base=1/14112000
start_pts=0
start_time=0.000000
duration_ts=2410536960
duration=170.814694
bit_rate=254883
nb_frames=N/A
nb_read_frames=N/A
nb_read_packets=N/A
DISPOSITION:default=0
DISPOSITION:dub=0
DISPOSITION:original=0
DISPOSITION:comment=0
DISPOSITION:lyrics=0
DISPOSITION:karaoke=0
DISPOSITION:forced=0
DISPOSITION:hearing_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:visual_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:clean_effects=0
DISPOSITION:attached_pic=0
[/STREAM]
[STREAM]
index=1
codec_name=mjpeg
codec_long_name=MJPEG (Motion JPEG)
profile=unknown
codec_type=video
codec_time_base=1/90000
codec_tag_string=[0][0][0][0]
codec_tag=0x0000
width=700
height=700
has_b_frames=0
sample_aspect_ratio=1:1
display_aspect_ratio=1:1
pix_fmt=yuvj444p
level=-99
timecode=N/A
id=N/A
r_frame_rate=90000/1
avg_frame_rate=0/0
time_base=1/90000
start_pts=0
start_time=0.000000
duration_ts=15373322
duration=170.814689
bit_rate=N/A
nb_frames=N/A
nb_read_frames=N/A
nb_read_packets=N/A
DISPOSITION:default=0
DISPOSITION:dub=0
DISPOSITION:original=0
DISPOSITION:comment=0
DISPOSITION:lyrics=0
DISPOSITION:karaoke=0
DISPOSITION:forced=0
DISPOSITION:hearing_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:visual_impaired=0
DISPOSITION:clean_effects=0
DISPOSITION:attached_pic=1
TAG:title=cover
TAG:comment=Cover (front)
[/STREAM]