Retrieve and print video info using skvideo . SEE Comment: This code may be indexed to parse a video file for specific information.

VIDEOinfo.py

from skvideo.io import *
import json
INFO = ffprobe("VID/videos/out.mp4")
print(json.dumps(INFO, indent=4))
"""
results in:
{
    "video": {
        "@index": "0", 
        "@codec_name": "h264", 
        "@codec_long_name": "H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10", 
        "@profile": "High", 
        "@codec_type": "video", 
        "@codec_time_base": "1/60", 
        "@codec_tag_string": "avc1", 
        "@codec_tag": "0x31637661", 
        "@width": "640", 
        "@height": "640", 
        "@coded_width": "640", 
        "@coded_height": "640", 
        "@has_b_frames": "2", 
        "@sample_aspect_ratio": "1:1", 
        "@display_aspect_ratio": "1:1", 
        "@pix_fmt": "yuv420p", 
        "@level": "31", 
        "@chroma_location": "left", 
        "@refs": "1", 
        "@is_avc": "true", 
        "@nal_length_size": "4", 
        "@r_frame_rate": "30/1", 
        "@avg_frame_rate": "30/1", 
        "@time_base": "1/15360", 
        "@start_pts": "0", 
        "@start_time": "0.000000", 
        "@duration_ts": "921600", 
        "@duration": "60.000000", 
        "@bit_rate": "462855", 
        "@bits_per_raw_sample": "8", 
        "@nb_frames": "1800", 
        "disposition": {
            "@default": "1", 
            "@dub": "0", 
            "@original": "0", 
            "@comment": "0", 
            "@lyrics": "0", 
            "@karaoke": "0", 
            "@forced": "0", 
            "@hearing_impaired": "0", 
            "@visual_impaired": "0", 
            "@clean_effects": "0", 
            "@attached_pic": "0", 
            "@timed_thumbnails": "0"
        }, 
        "tag": [
            {
                "@key": "language", 
                "@value": "und"
            }, 
            {
                "@key": "handler_name", 
                "@value": "VideoHandler"
            }
        ]
    }
}
"""

This code may be indexed to parse a video file for specific information.

from skvideo.io import *
import json
INFO = ffprobe("VID/videos/out.mp4")
TEXT = (json.dumps(INFO, indent=4))
TEXT = str(TEXT)
text = TEXT.split(",")
print text[1]
print text[2]
print "----------------"
print text[8],text[9]

Results:
    "@codec_name": "h264"
    "@codec_long_name": "H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10"
    ----------------
    "@width": "640"  
    "@height": "640"