Jean-Baptiste Thomas wrote: > Can anyone recommend a command line program that could tell me > the length of the video stream in a .avi or .mpg file ? Thanks > in advance.
If you invoke mplayer -vo none -ao none <filename> you will get a set of statistics which include the resolution, frame rate, and encoding rate for both video and audio streams. A little addition and division with the total size of the file should get you a good idea. ffmpeg -i <filename> will do a similar set of stats, including doing some math for you. (Look at "duration" in the output.) However, everything is only *likely* to be correct, because there are a number of encodings which can cause variable length. -dsr-
