Getting video dimension / resolution / width x height from ffmpeg

Question

How would I get the height and width of a video from ffmpeg\'s information output. For example, with the following output:

$ ffmpeg -i video.mp4         


        

Answer 1

In this blog post theres a rough solution in python:

import subprocess, re
pattern = re.compile(r'Stream.*Video.*([0-9]{3,})x([0-9]{3,})')

def get_size(pathtovideo):
    p = subprocess.Popen(['ffmpeg', '-i', pathtovideo],
                         stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                         stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
    stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
    match = pattern.search(stderr)
    if match:
        x, y = map(int, match.groups()[0:2])
    else:
        x = y = 0
    return x, y

This however assumes it's 3 digits x 3 digits (i.e. 854x480), you'll need to loop through the possible dimension lengths, such as (1280x720):

possible_patterns = [re.compile(r'Stream.*Video.*([0-9]{4,})x([0-9]{4,})'), \
            re.compile(r'Stream.*Video.*([0-9]{4,})x([0-9]{3,})'), \
re.compile(r'Stream.*Video.*([0-9]{3,})x([0-9]{3,})')]

and check if match returns None on each step:

for pattern in possible_patterns:
    match = pattern.search(stderr)
    if match!=None:
        x, y = map(int, match.groups()[0:2])
        break

if match == None:
    print "COULD NOT GET VIDEO DIMENSIONS"
    x = y = 0

return '%sx%s' % (x, y)

Could be prettier, but works.

Answer 2

BAD (\d+x\d+)

$ echo 'Stream #0:0(eng): Video: mjpeg (jpeg / 0x6765706A), yuvj420p, 1280x720, 19939 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc' | perl -lane 'print $1 if /(\d+x\d+)/'
> 0x6765706

GOOD ([0-9]{2,}x[0-9]+)

$ echo 'Stream #0:0(eng): Video: mjpeg (jpeg / 0x6765706A), yuvj420p, 1280x720, 19939 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 tbc' | perl -lane 'print $1 if /([0-9]{2,}x[0-9]+)/'
> 1280x720

Answer 3

From Fredrik's tip above, here is how I did it using MediaInfo ( http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en ):

>>> p1 = subprocess.Popen(['mediainfo', '--Inform=Video;%Width%x%Height%',         
    '/Users/david/Desktop/10stest720p.mov'],stdout=PIPE)
>>> dimensions=p1.communicate()[0].strip('\n')
>>> dimensions
'1280x688'

Answer 4

without re module

out = error_message.split()               # make a list from resulting error string
out.reverse()
for index, item in enumerate(out):        # extract the item before item= "[PAR"
    if item == "[PAR":                      #
        dimension_string = out[i+1]          #
        video_width, video_height = dimension_string.split("x")

Edit: not a good answer because not all videos have that "PAR" information :(

Answer 5

As mentioned here, ffprobe provides a way of retrieving data about a video file. I found the following command useful ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_streams input-video.xxx to see what sort of data you can checkout.

I then wrote a function that runs the above command and returns the height and width of the video file:

import subprocess
import shlex
import json

# function to find the resolution of the input video file
def findVideoResolution(pathToInputVideo):
    cmd = "ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_streams"
    args = shlex.split(cmd)
    args.append(pathToInputVideo)
    # run the ffprobe process, decode stdout into utf-8 & convert to JSON
    ffprobeOutput = subprocess.check_output(args).decode('utf-8')
    ffprobeOutput = json.loads(ffprobeOutput)

    # find height and width
    height = ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['height']
    width = ffprobeOutput['streams'][0]['width']

    return height, width

Answer 6

Have a look at mediainfo Handles most of the formats out there.

If you looking for a way to parse the output from ffmpeg, use the regexp \d+x\d+

Example using perl:

$ ./ffmpeg -i test020.3gp 2>&1 | perl -lane 'print $1 if /(\d+x\d+)/'
176x120

Example using python (not perfect):

$ ./ffmpeg -i /nfshome/enilfre/pub/test020.3gp 2>&1 | python -c "import sys,re;[sys.stdout.write(str(re.findall(r'(\d+x\d+)', line))) for line in sys.stdin]"

[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]['176x120'][][][]

Python one-liners aren't as catchy as perl ones :-)