[MPlayer-dev-eng] video file length in seconds and equliser read from source..

[Nico]

Julián Nuñez wrote:

> Hi:
>
> Maxipoint Rep Office wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am try create own unique visual interface connected to MPlayer. I 
>> have 2
>> problems:
>>
>> - I cannot easily determine video file length in seconds :-(. MPlayer 
>> hides
>> this information somewhere inside, so I cannot determine length and
>> correctly display progress bar during playback. Where is it inside 
>> MPlayer
>> source?
>>  
>>
> I can recommend the command -identify. It returns all kind of 
> information about the movie, including LENGTH. You can redirect it to 
> a fifo and parse it.
>

it doesn't work reliably for all file formats, and for mpeg files it's 
particularly unreliable