[MPlayer-users] how to get length of a video without playing it?

[Jan Knutar]

On Monday 09 August 2004 21:38, dave giffin wrote:

> Is this possible? Or, do I need to modify mplayer? If
> yes, how should it be modified?

RTFM...

mplayer -frames 0 -identify $INFILE 2>&1|grep ID_LENGTH