ffmpeg-media-info

ffmpeg-media-info is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from benchflow-ai/skillsbench. It costs 21 tokens per session (808 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to inspecting media files with FFprobe, the information-reporting tool included with FFmpeg. It shows details such as duration, resolution, bitrate, codecs, and audio or video streams.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check file properties, confirm encoding settings, inspect individual streams, and investigate media problems.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when a media file behaves unexpectedly or does not meet delivery requirements.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to check file properties, confirm encoding settings, inspect individual streams, and investigate media problems.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benchflow-ai/skillsbench/ffmpeg-media-info
About the project

SkillsBench is a benchmark for measuring how effectively AI agents use modular skills—folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources—to complete specialized tasks. It helps researchers and developers evaluate both skill quality and agent behavior, including tasks that require combining multiple skills. The catalogue’s skills and instructions are evaluated as part of this workflow.

benchflow-ai/skillsbench · 1,757 stars · on GitHub · skillsbench.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add benchflow-ai/skillsbench --skill ffmpeg-media-info
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benchflow-ai/skillsbench

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 808 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00808
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00404
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00162
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00081

Measured 7d ago against content hash 38f1012b7e72, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ffmpeg-media-info scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

tasks/multilingual-video-dubbing/environment/skills/ffmpeg-media-info/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

FFmpeg Media Info Skill

Extract and analyze media file metadata using ffprobe and ffmpeg.

When to Use

  • Get video/audio file properties
  • Check codec information
  • Verify resolution and bitrate
  • Analyze stream details
  • Debug media file issues

Basic Info Commands

# Show all file info
ffmpeg -i input.mp4

# JSON format (detailed)
ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams input.mp4

# Simple format
ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format input.mp4

Duration

# Get duration in seconds
ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration \
  -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 input.mp4

# Duration with timestamp format
ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration \
  -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 -sexagesimal input.mp4

Resolution

# Get video resolution
ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 \
  -show_entries stream=width,height \
  -of csv=s=x:p=0 input.mp4

# Get resolution as JSON
ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 \
  -show_entries stream=width,height \
  -of json input.mp4

Bitrate

# Get overall bitrate
ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=bit_rate \
  -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 input.mp4

# Get video bitrate
ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 \
  -show_entries stream=bit_rate \
  -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 input.mp4

Codec Information

# Video codec
ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 \
  -show_entries stream=codec_name,codec_long_name \
  -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 input.mp4

# Audio codec
ffprobe -v error -select_streams a:0 \
  -show_entries stream=codec_name,codec_long_name \
  -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 input.mp4

Sample Rate and Channels

# Audio sample rate
ffprobe -v error -select_streams a:0 \
  -show_entries stream=sample_rate \
  -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 input.mp4

# Audio channels
ffprobe -v error -select_streams a:0 \
  -show_entries stream=channels \
  -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 input.mp4

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 124 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 38f1012b7e72

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ffmpeg-media-info is a skill published in the GitHub repository benchflow-ai/skillsbench (1,757 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 808 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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