[MPlayer-users] Movie Duration

[Alexander Roalter]

Bastiaan Nelissen wrote:
> The thing is i want to do this in my (ssh) console, this means no video output, text only.
> so 'o' is not an option.
>  
Then simply do

mplayer video.mpg -identify -vo null -ao null \
    -frames 10 2>/dev/null | grep ID_LENGTH

and there you go.

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cheers,
Alex