How can I get the length of a video file from the console?
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Problem
Suppose we have a video file some_video. How can I get its length from a shell script (with mplayer/transcode/gstreamer/vlc/ffmpeg/whatever)?
Error Output
VIDEO_LENGTH_IN_SECONDS=`ffmpeg .... -i some_video ... | grep -o .....`
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