[MPlayer-dev-eng] video file length in seconds and equliser read from source..

[Michael Behrisch]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:36:17AM +0100, Nico wrote:
> >>
> >I can recommend the command -identify. It returns all kind of 
> >information about the movie, including LENGTH. You can redirect it to 
> >a fifo and parse it.
> >
> 
> it doesn't work reliably for all file formats, and for mpeg files it's 
> particularly unreliable

But looking into the code won't give you anything better and it got a 
little bit better recently.

Michael