Get the Width and Height Dimensions of a Video with ffprobe

This is the command I use to get the size dimensions of a video with ffprobe (which comes with ffmpeg).

ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream=width,height -of csv=p=0 input.mp4 > output.txt

This is the output from my sample video which is 1920 pixels wide by 1080 high.

1920,1080

Details

• -v error sets the logging verbosity to error level which prevents the standard progress output.

• -show_entries stream=width,height filters the output to show only the width and height.

• -of csv=p=0 sets the output format to CSV without headers.

• input.mp4 is the name of the input file.

• > sends the output to a file.

• output.txt is the file that gets the output.

Notes

• You can select a specific stream by adding this if the video has more than one in it:

  -select_streams v:0

• You can output to JSON by changing the -of value to:

  -of json