How to extract metadata of video files using Python 3.7? [closed]

Answer 1

FFMPEG is a suitable library for this.

Installation: pip3 install ffmpeg-python

How to use:

import ffmpeg
vid = ffmpeg.probe(your_video_address)
print(vid['streams'])

Answer 2

I have not found a nice library for Python but using hachoir with subprocess is a dirty workaround. You can grab the library itself from pip, the instructions for Python 3 are here: https://hachoir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

def get_media_properties(filename):

    result = subprocess.Popen(['hachoir-metadata', filename, '--raw', '--level=3'],
        stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT)

    results = result.stdout.read().decode('utf-8').split('\r\n')

    properties = {}

    for item in results:

        if item.startswith('- duration: '):
            duration = item.lstrip('- duration: ')
            if '.' in duration:
                t = datetime.datetime.strptime(item.lstrip('- duration: '), '%H:%M:%S.%f')
            else:
                t = datetime.datetime.strptime(item.lstrip('- duration: '), '%H:%M:%S')
            seconds = (t.microsecond / 1e6) + t.second + (t.minute * 60) + (t.hour * 3600)
            properties['duration'] = round(seconds)

        if item.startswith('- width: '):
            properties['width'] = int(item.lstrip('- width: '))

        if item.startswith('- height: '):
            properties['height'] = int(item.lstrip('- height: '))

    return properties

hachoir supports other properties as well but I am looking for just those three. For the mov files I tested it also appears to print out the creation date and modification dates. I am using a priority level of 3 so you can try playing with that to see more stuff.