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

[Mark Knecht]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Francisco Ares <frares@×××××.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
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>

Another possibility, assuming you have ffmpeg installed, is

ffmpeg -i FILE

and then look at the Duration field.

- Mark