Video information linemode for Ranger

Plugin to output a linemode with relevant information for videos, like the resolution,codec used or duration.

Requirements

It uses Mediainfo to output the information from the videos, there might also be a ffprobe version later on but it was easier for me to make it work with Mediainfo.

Install instructions

Place the mediainfo_linemode.py at:

~/.config/ranger/plugins

Then you can run it with:

:linemode mediainfo

And add a keybind on your rc.conf, we can add it to the section of the other linemodes:

map Mv linemode mediainfo

Configuration

You can choose what fields you want to output in the line by changing the line 85:

return line_output(key_video,["FrameRate","Format","Height","Duration"])

Delete the fields you don't want(the line might become too long) or change the order or add new onesby checking the output of mediainfo on a file and add anything from the video category:

mediainfo --Output=JSON myvideofile

You can tweak some of the output in the line_output function, as an example the Height in line 45:

#output.append("%sx%s" % (new_dict.get("Width"," "),new_dict.get("Height"," ")))
output.append(str(new_dict.get(value," ")) + "P" ) # short,ex: 1080P

The first one outputs the width and height:

1920x1080

And the second just the height, which is handy to keep the line shorter:

1080P

So you can just comment the one you don't like.