How to limit the number of frames ffprobe interprets?

Question

I have this command

ffprobe -show_frames -select_streams v  -print_format json -i c:\test.mpg

However, it prints off all the frame info. Is there anyway I can limit ffprobe to just look at the first 10 frames? Thanks

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Klarrisa

Answer 1

-read_intervals will do the trick. e.g. %+2 is to read first 2 sec, %+#2 to read 2 frames.

For example: -read_intervals "%+2"

Klarrisa

misleading option name, not quite explained in ffprobe -h, but it actually does work to only read the first x seconds from the input file. – Ulick