video-dimensions

A simple command line tool to find the width and height a video

Install

npm install -g get-video-dimensions-cli

This tool requires ffprobe to do the hard work, which is part of ffmpeg

You could:

brew install ffmpeg

but you can replace brew with your package manager of choice.

Usage

video-dimensions foo.mp4
{"name":"foo.mp4","width":690,"height":420}

Output is json to make downstream parsing easier, for something like JSONstream

Find all the dimensions of videos in a directory

find . -name "*.mp4" -exec video-dimensions {} \;

find is ace. The above will find all the files with the .mp4 extension in the current directory ., and run video-dimensions on each one.

{} is a placeholder for a single filename, and the \; is used to tell -exec that that's the end of the command.

Credits

• ffmpeg digs the info out of the videos and provides ffprobe
• get-video-dimensions - talks to ffprobe from node.

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