[MEncoder-users] Runtime Incorrect

[Nitin Jain]

On 5/12/07, Joey Parrish <joey.parrish at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/11/07, Nitin Jain <nitinj1981 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/11/07, Chris Nagele <cn at wildbit.com> wrote:
> > > I am trying to grab the runtime from certain files. For some reason it does
> > > not work anymore on simple Mp3 files.
> > >
> > > It is showing me "ID_LENGTH=1085.00" when in reality the song is only 02:17.
> > > Are there certain cases where the correct runtime cannot be calculated?
> > >
> >
> > I've an older version of mplayer, and on that, I just tried finding
> > the running times for a full album, and they came out absolutely
> > fine... either your mp3 is corrupted or this is some bug in mplayer
> > (notably, the ID_LENGTH field I see are whole numbers, without any
> > decimal, i.e.)
>
> Nitin, are your mp3's VBR, ABR, or CBR?
> Chris, same question.

They were CBR. Tried a few VBR ones right now, and ID_LENGTH field
comes out arbitrary (tried to see if the HEX versions had some
connection, but couldn't find any)..

regards,
Nitin

>
> --Joey
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