ffplayįinally, there is even a command line playback utility called ffplay that can be used to play videos without the need for any fancy video playback software (link to an ffplay tutorial). Here is an article that details some of the useful features of ffprobe. You can extract all sorts of metadata out of a video using ffprobe, count the number of frames, find the positions of the IDR frames, and more. There is a command line utility called ffprobe that’s built using the Fmpeg library and can be used to inspect and peer into video files.
Of course, you can always download the FFmpeg source code and build it from scratch while configuring what codecs to use and not.
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