[MPlayer-users] exact length of a dvd title for mencoder bitrate calculations

[Oliver Fromme]

Dominik Szczerba <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
 > Hey that's a nice trick. Takes time though, but it seems most reliable. 

You can also use mencoder (not mplayer) like this:
$ mencoder -oac copy -ovc copy -o /dev/null

It's faster, and it displays the number of frames, which
should always be correct.  Just divide it by 25 (PAL) or
30 (NTSC) to get the running time in seconds.

Regards
   Oliver

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