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-rw-r--r--Changelog1
-rw-r--r--doc/ffprobe.texi5
-rw-r--r--doc/ffprobe.xsd6
-rw-r--r--ffprobe.c20
4 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 09e44d4935..154356214b 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ version next:
- amerge audio filter
- Automatic thread count based on detection number of (available) CPU cores
- y41p Brooktree Uncompressed 4:1:1 12-bit encoder and decoder
+- ffprobe -show_error option
version 0.9:
diff --git a/doc/ffprobe.texi b/doc/ffprobe.texi
index 736c7f06c0..002f91e9a7 100644
--- a/doc/ffprobe.texi
+++ b/doc/ffprobe.texi
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ For example for printing the output in JSON format, specify:
For more details on the available output printing formats, see the
Writers section below.
+@item -show_error
+Show information about the error found when trying to probe the input.
+
+The error information is printed within a section with name "ERROR".
+
@item -show_format
Show information about the container format of the input multimedia
stream.
diff --git a/doc/ffprobe.xsd b/doc/ffprobe.xsd
index 92bc2b1b55..93da1d4429 100644
--- a/doc/ffprobe.xsd
+++ b/doc/ffprobe.xsd
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
<xsd:element name="packets" type="ffprobe:packetsType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="streams" type="ffprobe:streamsType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
<xsd:element name="format" type="ffprobe:formatType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
+ <xsd:element name="error" type="ffprobe:errorType" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" />
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
@@ -93,4 +94,9 @@
<xsd:attribute name="key" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
<xsd:attribute name="value" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
</xsd:complexType>
+
+ <xsd:complexType name="errorType">
+ <xsd:attribute name="code" type="xsd:int" use="required"/>
+ <xsd:attribute name="string" type="xsd:string" use="required"/>
+ </xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>
diff --git a/ffprobe.c b/ffprobe.c
index 0c1e3d0d03..ee3c899ce8 100644
--- a/ffprobe.c
+++ b/ffprobe.c
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
const char program_name[] = "ffprobe";
const int program_birth_year = 2007;
+static int do_show_error = 0;
static int do_show_format = 0;
static int do_show_packets = 0;
static int do_show_streams = 0;
@@ -1322,6 +1323,22 @@ static void show_format(WriterContext *w, AVFormatContext *fmt_ctx)
fflush(stdout);
}
+static void show_error(WriterContext *w, int err)
+{
+ char errbuf[128];
+ const char *errbuf_ptr = errbuf;
+
+ if (av_strerror(err, errbuf, sizeof(errbuf)) < 0)
+ errbuf_ptr = strerror(AVUNERROR(err));
+
+ writer_print_chapter_header(w, "error");
+ print_section_header("error");
+ print_int("code", err);
+ print_str("string", errbuf_ptr);
+ print_section_footer("error");
+ writer_print_chapter_footer(w, "error");
+}
+
static int open_input_file(AVFormatContext **fmt_ctx_ptr, const char *filename)
{
int err, i;
@@ -1405,6 +1422,8 @@ static int probe_file(const char *filename)
PRINT_CHAPTER(streams);
PRINT_CHAPTER(format);
avformat_close_input(&fmt_ctx);
+ } else if (do_show_error) {
+ show_error(wctx, ret);
}
writer_print_footer(wctx);
writer_close(&wctx);
@@ -1478,6 +1497,7 @@ static const OptionDef options[] = {
"prettify the format of displayed values, make it more human readable" },
{ "print_format", OPT_STRING | HAS_ARG, {(void*)&print_format},
"set the output printing format (available formats are: default, compact, csv, json, xml)", "format" },
+ { "show_error", OPT_BOOL, {(void*)&do_show_error} , "show probing error" },
{ "show_format", OPT_BOOL, {(void*)&do_show_format} , "show format/container info" },
{ "show_packets", OPT_BOOL, {(void*)&do_show_packets}, "show packets info" },
{ "show_streams", OPT_BOOL, {(void*)&do_show_streams}, "show streams info" },