artheus/media-file-probe

node module using ffprobe to get metadata

Media File Probe

Tiny module, using ffprobe, to collect metadata about media files.

Install

npm install media-file-probe

Usage

var mediaprober = require('media-file-probe')();

mediaprober.probe('/Users/artheus/somemediafile.mov').on('metadata', function(data){
	// Now you can read the media file data from the data variable
});

CLI

There is also a cli tool included that simply does what is in the example usage above and then prints the metadata. You can use it like this

npm install -g media-file-probe

media-file-probe /Users/artheus/somemediafile.mov
{
	... Lots o' metadata ...
}