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No properly working "Length" column for audio/video files
Cripple-resistant:
Hello,
I've tried to find a column "Length" in MC that consistently displays the time length of audio and video file of any type (as MS Explorer and some other 3rd party file explorers do). The one that seems to be the most reliable I've found is "Audio - Length Total", nonetheless this column does not display anything for some multimedia file types like ".webm" and ".mkv" for example.
Would it be possible to have a column "Length" that reliably works (like in MS Explorer and some other 3rd party file explorers) for any type of audios and videos?
This is really important for me as this is one of these annoying "details" that end up making me return to use other file explorers than MC.
Many thanks in advance! :)
Mathias (Author):
Sorry metadata for now only supports in audio files.
The 3rd party lib I use for this only supported audio files last time I looked. and last time I checked I did not find a good free library to use for video metadata.
But It was a while ago.. I add it to my list to investigate if there are any possible 3rd party libraries to use for this
FredeF:
You should use the MediaInfo.dll
It is open source och fungerar jätte bra. The documentation is rather inadequate and the frontend gui is awful, but for MC only the .dll is needed.
It will extremely fast rip the data even from almost any obscure file extension.
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download/Windows
Maybe you could also give this a thought, since it will soon be christmas: http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,3616.0.html
Cripple-resistant:
Hi Mathias, FredeF,
Thank you both for your answers :)
Hopefully Mathias you will be able to solve this (maybe using the MediaInfo .dll as kindly suggested by FredeF).
Optional reading:
FYI I will quickly tell you why not having all the audio/video lengths makes MC unusable for one of my own main use cases:
* Basically I like browsing various news web sites, forums, etc...
* On some of the pages of these web sites, sometimes there are videos or audios
* I really don't like watching/listening to these embedded videos/audios using my web browser (because it's often very frustratingly buggy, slow, not many settings/options (specially the playing speed fine-tuning), etc...)
* So I use a software utility to download some potentially interesting embedded videos/audios in one big directory on my computer to watch them with a good offline video/audio player either on the spot or later when I have more time (the amount of audios/videos tend to grow in this directory, you know how it is: too little time / information overload etc... :-\)
* I like using a sleek file explorer to list all these video/audio files in this big directory
* I need to be able to check the length of ALL these video/audio files so that it helps me choosing which video/audio files to watch/listen to depending on the time I have in front of me.
* If some time lengths are missing in MC file listing then it makes MC pretty much unusable for this use case and hence I have to use other file explorers which do not have that problem for this use case
QED
Hopefully you can do something about it quickly,
many thanks in advance :)
Mathias (Author):
--- Quote from: FredeF on November 12, 2019, 19:37:15 ---You should use the MediaInfo.dll
It is open source och fungerar jätte bra. The documentation is rather inadequate and the frontend gui is awful, but for MC only the .dll is needed.
It will extremely fast rip the data even from almost any obscure file extension.
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download
https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download/Windows
Maybe you could also give this a thought, since it will soon be christmas: http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,3616.0.html
--- End quote ---
I have look at it. the API is horrible and bloated. Not sure I want to increase the size of MC with 80% just to get some minor data about video files.
There must be something better.
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