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Get the video/audio codec of the first stream in a video file
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ffprobe-video-audio-codec.sh
# Video
ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=codec_name -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 input.mp4
# Audio
ffprobe -v error -select_streams a:0 -show_entries stream=codec_name -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 input.mp4
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