View information about audio or video files in command line

One of the command to accomplish this, is called mediainfo. It is not installed by default, so we have to install it first.

To install mediainfo in ubuntu, simply run

$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install mediainfo -y

Once installed, we can check the information of any audio / video file using the command

$ mediainfo myfile.mp4

Some of the information that we can get from a video file

Some of the information that we can get from an audio file