Getting ffprobe output into a Windows batch file

[rbjtech 4266]

Just thought I'd share this - as I frequently write little scripts to process the output from ffmpeg/ffprobe in Windows batch files.   Yes I should be using PowerShell, but for the simple stuff, batch usually suffices.

The trick is to get ffmpeg/ffprobe to output MULTIPLE fields to a CSV format and then capture the std output for the batch file to use as variables.

I've split the file into Video, Audio and Subs - so you can see what's going on (I've just used common ffmpeg track variables, but there are 100's to use if you wish) - but you could do it all one command line if you wanted to.

Anyway - this is not a 'working' script - it's just an example of what you can do to capture the output from multiple fields in ffmpeg/ffprobe - and then go onto using them in your own script.

Hopefully useful to somebody ..

get_ffprobe_output_into_batch.bat.txt

Edited April 12, 2023 by rbjtech