[ale] Duration

[Brian Pitts]

On 01/06/2010 05:56 PM, Terry Bailey wrote:
> Is there a utility in Cygwin that will determine the duration of a video file?
> 
> If there is a utility that I could download, then currently, it would 
> need to be in binary form since I do not have a compiler.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry Bailey
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Is mplayer in Cygwin? You can use the -identify option and check for
ID_LENGTH in the output. E.G.

mplayer -frames 0 -identify avideo.mkv

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All the best,
Brian Pitts