On 7/28/08, Chris Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree.
>
> I use MPlayer to process videos. One script gets the video length like this.
>
> //use mplayer to pull some info from the video
> $info = exec("\"$mplayer\" $videoPath/$videoName -identify -nosound -frames 0 
> > $tmpInfoFile");
> //and open the file it stores the data in
> $infoFile = fopen("$tmpInfoFile", "rb");
> //then parse for the video length
> while(! feof($infoFile) )
> {
>        $lineBuffer = fgets($infoFile);
>        if(preg_match("/ID_LENGTH=/", $lineBuffer))
>        {
>                $videoLength = (int) preg_replace("/ID_LENGTH=/", "", 
> $lineBuffer);
>        }
> }

you could probably skip piping it to a tempfile - and just use popen()
to open the process...

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