Comments on OpenShot Video Editor | Blog: Find Position & Duration Using Python

Thanks for the info jonathan. Actually I don't nee...

2008-05-29T13:47:00.000-05:00

Thanks for the info jonathan. Actually I don't need to play the video itself. All I need is to find out the duration of the video file. and reading about the gst-discover module, does this exactly. I'm actually creating a video converter for my psp. im currently using python, pygtk, gst, and ffmpeg for it.

thanks again. I'll be your newest blog reader.

cheers!

To query duration without showing a video widget, ...

2008-05-29T13:41:00.000-05:00

To query duration without showing a video widget, I believe you need to use a fakesink (http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/0.10.1/gstreamer-plugins/html/gstreamer-plugins-fakesink.html). I'll give this a try tonight and see if it works.

If you are getting a -1 as the duration, it sounds like the stream was not set to PAUSED or PLAY. You might try putting that query in a timer, and continuously querying the pipeline (just to see if it's always -1).

I'm currently using the playbin element. do you kn...

2008-05-29T10:43:00.000-05:00

I'm currently using the playbin element. do you know how to get the duration using filesrc? because when i try to use it, it gives me -1.

please advice.

Thanks for a nice post. I've been looking for such...

2008-05-29T09:43:00.000-05:00

Thanks for a nice post. I've been looking for such an information. I was wondering is there a way to query the duration of a certain file without showing the video widget? even if i pause it the video widget still pops up.