How to get video duration from shell!?
I have a directory with too many videos file.
I want to print duration of total of the file in directory.
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closed as off topic by SvW, Maxwell, MadHatter, Ward, pauska Oct 18 '12 at 11:48
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I dont think there is a command that can do what you want directly. You can try installing ffmpeg, and with it you get If you run: you get all the data about it (including the duration). Since it's based on ffmpeg, it supports more-or-less all the popular codecs. With this, you can write a script to parse and sum up all the durations. ps: for some unknown reason, my version of ffmpeg outputs data to STDERR instead of STDOUT. Dont know if it's a bug or a feature. |
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