[MEncoder-users] Finding out file duration

[n0dalus]

On 11/1/05, Guillaume POIRIER <poirierg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's probabaly the best solution as some containers such as MPEG
> can't be safely trusted to report the correct duration.
> What you may do though is speed-up the decoding process using the
> lavdopts decoding options, and/or use "-nosound"
>

Be careful because some container formats allow sound that goes longer
than the video. In that case if you used -nosound I'm pretty sure it
would only go to the end of the video stream then stop. I've had this
on a few director's commentaries.

n0dalus.