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 > $tmp
	num_p=`grep -c i:P "$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