[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] ffprobe: show stream id in packets and frames

[Gyan Doshi]

On 20-02-2020 04:52 am, Jan Ekström wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:31 AM Gyan Doshi <ffmpeg at gyani.pro> wrote:
>> Required for reliably identifying streams in MPEGTS-like live inputs.
>> ---
> Can you please explain to me how would this be any different from
> adding `-show_programs -show_streams` and checking out the listing of
> those first?

It saves some steps in shell scripts,  avoiding having to correlate 
stream index with id.

Gyan