tcprobe

To get info about a video file on the command line, install transcode and then run tcprobe -i <video_file>

Example output:

[tcprobe] RIFF data, AVI video
[tcprobe] summary for <filename_here>, (*) = not default, 0 = not detected
import frame size: -g 656x346 [720x576] (*)
 frame rate: -f 23.976 [25.000] frc=1 (*)
 audio track: -a 0 [0] -e 48000,0,2 [48000,16,2] -n 0x55 [0x2000] (*)
 bitrate=112 kbps
 length: 146626 frames, frame_time=41 msec, duration=1:41:55.532

~ by azimout on November 2, 2009.