[MPlayer-users] How to get the duration(ID_LENGTH) of a Sony MTS video file use "mplayer"?

[littlebat]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:47:27 +0200
Nico Sabbi <nicola.sabbi at poste.it> wrote:

> as long as the file is not broken it's a correct method, but your
> test.MTS contains a video stream that the decoder chokes on.
> A more correct method consists in adding -nosound, so mencoder won't
> skip or duplicate video frames.

I have many this kind of *.MTS video files recorded by two Sony DV
machines. Because mencoder can't transcode them correctly while ffmpeg
works well, and mencoder hasn't been maintained long time, I consider
this is a mencoder bug.

> If you have enough patience and will you can browse the ML archives
> or the samples repository in mphq.

How to access samples repository in mphq?