Re: Length of a video file (.avi, .mpg) from the command line

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Subject: Re: Length of a video file (.avi, .mpg) from the command line
From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 16:22:36 +0000
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Hi,

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 05:43:42PM +0200, 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 ?

ffprobe from the ffmpeg package can extract the duration, and offers
programmatically-friendly output formats such as CSV, JSON and so
on.

    http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/FFprobeTips#Duration

Cheers,
Andy

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