Your audio and video files already carry a JSON manifest with codec, bitrate, encoder, chapters, color space, and 30 to 80 other fields per stream. Here is how to read that JSON, why ffprobe surfaces fields players hide, and four everyday cases where reading the manifest ends a guessing game.
A field guide to lifting reviewer markup — highlights, sticky notes, stamps, links — out of a PDF and into structured JSON your scripts can use. Walks nine subtypes, seven extracted fields, and three workflow patterns.
A mental model for the five dials the XML to JSON converter actually exposes — pretty print, attributes, namespaces, single-element arrays, and the implicit mixed-content corner — plus the eight-question check that catches every silent loss of fidelity before you trust the output.