Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to read movie clip duration in console?

[Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com>]

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Thanks a lot to all, It is very interesting, 3 excellent options already.

Francisco


On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Francisco Ares <frares@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi, All
> >
> > Sorry for the OT, but Gentoo'ers are way above medium linux users.
> >
> > I have a bunch of movie clips and I wanted to build a table of contents
> > including clip duration. Instead of opening one at a time, is there any
> > application that I could user for a script?
> >
> > I though on mplayer, but I could not find a way for it to tell me the
> > duration of a clip.
>
> The media-video/mediainfo package provides this info and more. It can
> also output the info in XML which might be useful to you if you're
> building a database of your movie info.
>
>


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