add extracting video metadata tutorial

Author: x4nth055

README.md

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     - [How to Concatenate Audio Files in Python](https://www.thepythoncode.com/article/concatenate-audio-files-in-python). ([code](python-for-multimedia/combine-audio))
     - [How to Extract Frames from Video in Python](https://www.thepythoncode.com/article/extract-frames-from-videos-in-python). ([code](python-for-multimedia/extract-frames-from-video))
     - [How to Reverse Videos in Python](https://www.thepythoncode.com/article/reverse-video-in-python). ([code](python-for-multimedia/reverse-video))
+    - [How to Extract Video Metadata in Python](https://www.thepythoncode.com/article/extract-media-metadata-in-python). ([code](python-for-multimedia/extract-video-metadata))
 
 
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python-for-multimedia/extract-video-metadata/README.md

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+# [How to Extract Video Metadata in Python](https://www.thepythoncode.com/article/extract-media-metadata-in-python)
+To run this:
+- Install [FFmpeg](https://www.ffmpeg.org/) program.
+- `pip3 install -r requirements.txt`

python-for-multimedia/extract-video-metadata/extract_media_metadata.py

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+import ffmpeg
+import sys
+from pprint import pprint # for printing Python dictionaries in a human-readable way
+
+# read the audio/video file from the command line arguments
+media_file = sys.argv[1]
+# uses ffprobe command to extract all possible metadata from the media file
+pprint(ffmpeg.probe(media_file)["streams"])

python-for-multimedia/extract-video-metadata/requirements.txt

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+ffmpeg-python