mediainfo: Run a MediaInfo command

In tidymedia: Media File Preprocessing and Metadata for the 'tidyverse'

Run a MediaInfo command

Description

mediainfo() runs the MediaInfo program with the arguments in command and returns its output. MediaInfo reads information about media files.

Usage

mediainfo(command)

Arguments

command

A string with the arguments to give MediaInfo.

Details

mediainfo() is a direct command. The package passes command to MediaInfo exactly as you wrote it, so you must add any quotes that it needs. To get a tibble or a value instead, use mediainfo_template(), mediainfo_query() or mediainfo_parameter(). These functions quote their arguments for you.

Value

A character vector with the text that MediaInfo writes to standard output, one element for each line. Messages on standard error are not returned. On macOS and Linux, a shell redirect such as ⁠2>&1⁠ in command returns them too.

See Also

mediainfo_template(), mediainfo_query() and mediainfo_parameter() for a tibble or a value. get_duration() and the other ⁠get_*()⁠ functions for common single values.

Other direct command functions: ffmpeg(), ffprobe()

Examples

mediainfo("--Version")

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