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macOS Get video duration programmatically

Macman1993

Macman1993

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Nov 23, 2007
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Hi,
I need the duration of a video that the user will provide in a program I'm writing (written in objective-c). Does anyone know a good way to do this? The video's will be in either flv or mp4 format, and I am using ffmpeg in my program already so if anyone knows a trick to get the duration with ffmpeg it would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise any general way of getting the duration would be great.

Thanks
 
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kainjow

Moderator emeritus
Jun 15, 2000
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From googling, looks like you can call it with -i argument, and then it'll output some info including the duration, which you can then parse as a string. You can use NSTask to execute it.
 
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