[FFmpeg-user] 'Duration: N/A' for some videos ?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Shyam Sundar <sw.craftsman <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Bit-rate is understood ... I want to find out the 
> 'duration' using FFProbe like how it used to give before.

It was wrong before.

> The newer version also gives only the max
> bit-rate but not the duration.

Because the duration is unknown:
Known are filesize and maximum duration, you have to 
decode to know the actual duration.

Carl Eugen