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+### Installation
+
+First add the dependency to your `Cargo.toml`
+```toml
+[dependencies]
+...
+ffmpeg = "0.3.0"
+```
+Then update (will likely [take a while](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53361052/how-do-i-debug-cargo-build-hanging-at-updating-crates-io-index) due to size of downloaded ffmpeg lib)
+```bash
+cargo update
+```
+
+### Usage
+
+```rust
+use std::{fs::File};
+
+fn main() {
+    ffmpeg::init().unwrap();
+    let file = File::open("path/to/your/video/file.mkv").unwrap();
+    match ffmpeg::format::input(file) {
+        Ok(context) => {
+            for (k, v) in context.metadata().iter() {
+                println!("{}: {}", k, v);
+            }
+        }
+        Err(error) => println!("error: {}", error),
+    }
+}
+```
+By running it via:
+```bash
+cargo run
+```
+The output is:
+```
+error: failed to run custom build command for `ffmpeg-sys v4.2.1`
+```
+
+For more examples see [`/examples/`](https://github.com/meh/rust-ffmpeg/blob/master/examples/metadata.rs).