[FFmpeg-user] ffprobe get codec

[Moritz Barsnick]

Hi Martin,

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 13:49:40 +0200, Martin Schmidt wrote:
> I can do this:
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\FFMPEG\bin\ffprobe" -v error -of 
> default=nokey=1:noprint_wrappers=1 -select_streams v:0 -show_entries 
> stream=width "input.mov"
> So my guess is I can also only get the codec name?

Sure, select "codec_name" (i.e. "-show_entries stream=codec_name") instead of
"width".

Moritz