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//Use FFprobe to get data.
//source (and other things to query.)
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/FFprobeTips

//get the bitrate on a list of files.
for FILENM in *.flv; do ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=bit_rate -of csv $FILENM; done;
//result
format,509845
format,519899
format,504639


//get the durations of all the files in a directory.
for FILENM in *.flv; do ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of csv $FILENM; done;
//result
format,106.710203
format,289.358367

//get the w/h of a video
for FILENM in *.flv; do eval $(ffprobe -v error -of flat=s=_ -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=height,width $FILENM); size=${streams_stream_0_width}x${streams_stream_0_height}; echo $size; done;