====== framecount ====== * [[frameinfo]] Display number of frames in a video and part of their types: for x in $*; do echo -n "$x: " tmp=`tempfile` ffmpeg -i "$x" -vf showinfo -f null /dev/null 2>&1 | cut -d ' ' -f 4- | grep ^n > $tmp ffmpeg -fflags +genpts -i "$x" -an -sn -vf showinfo -f null - 2>&1 | egrep 'i:(P|T|B)' > "$tmp" num_p=`grep -c i:P "$tmp"` num_t=`grep -c i:T "$tmp"` num_b=`grep -c i:B "$tmp"` echo "progressive: $num_p top-field: $num_t bottom-field: $num_b" rm $tmp done Example: $ framecount 1.722.2330.18435.TMNT2.mpg 1.722.2330.18435.TMNT2.mpg: progressive: 32599 top-field: 0 bottom-field: 0