However, you have to manually navigate to the FFmpeg folder in Command Prompt. NOTE : If you already use MacPorts as your package manager, don’t use homebrew as well….things will go funny. Being a portable software, in theory, you dont have to install FFmpeg to use it. Here’s the best way I’ve found (also the most compatible way of installing Python too).

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Usage:: #!/usr/bin/env python from ffprobe import FFProbe metadata = FFProbe ( 'test-media-file.mov' ) for stream in metadata. A wrapper around the ffprobe command to extract metadata from media files.

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