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.
The information for each single packet is printed within a dedicated
section with name "PACKET".
+@item -show_frames
+Show information about each video frame contained in the input multimedia
+stream.
+
+The information for each single frame is printed within a dedicated
+section with name "FRAME".
+
@item -show_streams
Show information about each media stream contained in the input
multimedia stream.
Each media stream information is printed within a dedicated section
with name "STREAM".
+@item -show_private_data, -private
+Show private data, that is data depending on the format of the
+particular shown element.
+This option is enabled by default, but you may need to disable it
+for specific uses, for example when creating XSD-compliant XML output.
+
@item -i @var{input_file}
Read @var{input_file}.
@chapter Writers
@c man begin WRITERS
-A writer defines the output format adopted by @file{ffprobe}, and will be
+A writer defines the output format adopted by @command{ffprobe}, and will be
used for printing all the parts of the output.
A writer may accept one or more arguments, which specify the options to
For more information about JSON, see @url{http://www.json.org/}.
+@section xml
+XML based format.
+
+The XML output is described in the XML schema description file
+@file{ffprobe.xsd} installed in the FFmpeg datadir.
+
+Note that the output issued will be compliant to the
+@file{ffprobe.xsd} schema only when no special global output options
+(@option{unit}, @option{prefix}, @option{byte_binary_prefix},
+@option{sexagesimal} etc.) are specified.
+
+This writer accepts options as a list of @var{key}=@var{value} pairs,
+separated by ":".
+
+The description of the accepted options follows.
+
+@table @option
+
+@item fully_qualified, q
+If set to 1 specify if the output should be fully qualified. Default
+value is 0.
+This is required for generating an XML file which can be validated
+through an XSD file.
+
+@item xsd_compliant, x
+If set to 1 perform more checks for ensuring that the output is XSD
+compliant. Default value is 0.
+This option automatically sets @option{fully_qualified} to 1.
+@end table
+
+For more information about the XML format, see
+@url{http://www.w3.org/XML/}.
+
@c man end WRITERS
@include decoders.texi