Getting video dimension / resolution / width x height from ffmpeg

Question

How would I get the height and width of a video from ffmpeg\'s information output. For example, with the following output:

$ ffmpeg -i video.mp4         


        

Answer 1

From Fredrik's tip above, here is how I did it using MediaInfo ( http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en ):

>>> p1 = subprocess.Popen(['mediainfo', '--Inform=Video;%Width%x%Height%',         
    '/Users/david/Desktop/10stest720p.mov'],stdout=PIPE)
>>> dimensions=p1.communicate()[0].strip('\n')
>>> dimensions
'1280x688'