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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to read movie clip duration in console?
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 17:10:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ecOJBhOccegJsSe=o2kQV9wKsyrasFKtYKcxP02oHf9xA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHH9eM5OrMKp3QZmLmLwX=1gXL_axq0x5_7xRZMpqY2jyOX4Cg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:05 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.
>
> Thanks
> Francisco
> --
> "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you
> and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one
> idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -
> George Bernard Shaw
>

Another possibility, assuming you have ffmpeg installed, is

ffmpeg -i FILE

and then look at the Duration field.

- Mark



      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-05  0:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-04 21:05 [gentoo-user] [OT] how to read movie clip duration in console? Francisco Ares
2011-11-04 21:32 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-11-04 21:38   ` Dale
2011-11-04 22:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-04 22:25 ` Paul Hartman
2011-11-04 23:08   ` Francisco Ares
2011-11-05  0:10 ` Mark Knecht [this message]

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