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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