README.md

go-ffprobe

Small library for executing an ffprobe process on a given file and getting an easy to use struct representing the returned ffprobe data.

Installation

go get gopkg.in/vansante/go-ffprobe.v2

Documentation

Take a look at the autogenerated documentation:

https://pkg.go.dev/gopkg.in/vansante/go-ffprobe.v2

Basic usage

To get a quick the quick data on a video file:

ctx, cancelFn := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
defer cancelFn()

data, err := ffprobe.ProbeURL(ctx, "/path/to/file.mp4")
if err != nil {
    log.Panicf("Error getting data: %v", err)
}

To get the ffprobe data for a video file that is accessible via HTTP, you can use the same command, but with an HTTP URL.

To get the data of a file you have an io.Reader for, use:

ctx, cancelFn := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
defer cancelFn()

fileReader, err := os.Open("/path/to/file.mp4")
if err != nil {
    log.Panicf("Error opening test file: %v", err)
}

data, err := ffprobe.ProbeReader(ctx, fileReader)
if err != nil {
    log.Panicf("Error getting data: %v", err)
}