The mediainfo CLI app, or ffmpeg if that doesn't work. You can shell out to the CLI with the back-tick operator, and the return from either of these will be plain text, suitable for further regular-expression- bashing.

Walter

On Mar 19, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Ralph Shnelvar wrote:

Saturday, March 19, 2011, 11:12:58 AM, you wrote:

CL> On 19 March 2011 16:47, Ralph Shnelvar <[email protected]> wrote:
Is there a way in Rails to get the duration (minutes, seconds, etc.) of a flash video? I want to display the amount of time to the users before
they start playing it or downloading it.

CL> Do you know a way of determining the time via command line?

Colin, I do not know how to do so.

I was hoping there was a gem to help me do it.

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