Okay - question for the smartest forum, ever

[BadMojo]

I'm trying to figure out how I can tell the playing time for video (flv) from the command line. I can get the file size, but that's not the goal.

See, I'm converting user uploads from mov/mpeg/etc using a command line, and then uploading that to filesystem, and writing stats to the db. I can't trust the user imput the correct time (silly lUsers), so I need to figure it out.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Jokes?

Thanks in advance.

[smr54]

ffmpeg -i file_name.flv should give the duration.