[MPlayer-users] Re: how to get length of a video without playing it?

[Adam Karkowski]

> When I play a video in mplayer, I can get the length
> of the video.
>But, how can I get the length of the video without
> playing it or doing something that would take a lot of
> CPU/memory?
>Among other uses, this would let me write a script to
> generate a list of my videos and their lengths.

There's a utility called "lsdvd". It's available from  
http://www.thirtythreeandathird.net/lsdvd.html or  
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acidrip/.