Answers.Body: <p>I believe that can be achieved with <a href="https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ffprobe</a>. </p>
  
  <p>You can see example of getting json format from it <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7708373/get-ffmpeg-information-in-friendly-way">here</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: mediainfo https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download is also not bad for this task
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Body: <p>This is blurring the lines between programming and vid production (question not allowed on Stack Overflow or Programmers)</p>
  
  <p>I am throwing this out there as I know there may not be a suitable solution, but if there is maybe someone here may be able to help.</p>
  
  <p>My team is brainstorming a video stream analysis tool - essentially something that would be able to test media streams and provide analytics about that stream (bitrate, packet loss,startup time etc), preferably this is a tool that could be run in the background on Linux and accept tests as they come in - perhaps fed from a third party API.</p>
  
  <p>If you are familiar with WebPageTest then essentially i would be looking for something like this, but for media streams (GUI is not required).</p>
  
  <p>We would prefer python but that is not a requirement.</p>
  
  <p>I have seen pymedia - but it seems quite old, and maybe not a good fit.</p>
  
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Title: Video Analysis Tool - Open Source Software Recommendation
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ThreadText: # Video Analysis Tool - Open Source Software Recommendation
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-01-21)
  
  This is blurring the lines between programming and vid production (question not allowed on Stack Overflow or Programmers)
  
  I am throwing this out there as I know there may not be a suitable solution, but if there is maybe someone here may be able to help.
  
  My team is brainstorming a video stream analysis tool - essentially something that would be able to test media streams and provide analytics about that stream (bitrate, packet loss,startup time etc), preferably this is a tool that could be run in the background on Linux and accept tests as they come in - perhaps fed from a third party API.
  
  If you are familiar with WebPageTest then essentially i would be looking for something like this, but for media streams (GUI is not required).
  
  We would prefer python but that is not a requirement.
  
  I have seen pymedia - but it seems quite old, and maybe not a good fit.
  
  **Tags:** software-recommendation, streaming
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-01-21. Score: 1
  
  I believe that can be achieved with [ffprobe](https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffprobe.html).
  
  You can see example of getting json format from it [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7708373/get-ffmpeg-information-in-friendly-way)
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: mediainfo https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download is also not bad for this task  
  
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