jamiebullock/av-length

A command-line app to print the length of an A/V file in seconds

av-length — command line tool to get the length of an A/V file

Usage

av-length [-types] <AV file path>

Examples

print the length of the audio file myfile.caf

./av-length myfile.caf

print the length of the video file myfile.m4v

./av-length myfile.m4v

print the file MIME types supported by av-length

./av-length -types

Behaviour

av-length will print to stdout the duration in seconds of the audio-visual file at the path specified by <AV file path>.

If the file is not a valid AV file, then 0.000000 will be printed.

If the argument -types is given, a list of supported file MIME types will be printed.

Current MIME types

At the time of writing, the supported file MIME types are as follows:

• audio/aacp
• video/3gpp2
• audio/mpeg3
• audio/mp3
• video/x-m2ts
• audio/x-caf
• audio/mpeg
• video/quicktime
• audio/x-mpeg3
• video/mp4
• audio/wav
• video/avi
• audio/scpls
• audio/mp4
• audio/x-mpg
• video/x-m4v
• audio/x-wav
• audio/x-aiff
• video/x-mpeg
• application/vnd.apple.mpegurl
• video/3gpp
• video/mpeg2
• audio/x-mpeg
• audio/wave
• audio/x-m4r
• audio/x-mp3
• audio/AMR
• video/x-mpg
• audio/aiff
• video/mpg
• video/mpeg
• audio/3gpp2
• audio/aac
• audio/mpg
• audio/mpegurl
• video/m2ts
• audio/x-m4b
• audio/x-scpls
• application/mp4
• audio/x-m4p
• audio/x-mpegurl
• video/x-mpeg2
• audio/x-aac
• audio/3gpp
• application/x-mpegurl
• audio/basic
• audio/x-m4a