[theora-dev] How to get the duration of a file or track?

[Ralph Giles]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 06:59:44PM -0400, Ken Larson wrote:

> Thanks, that will come in handy, because I do eventually need to try to 
> determine duration of individual frames.

Theora is a fixed framerate codec, so the duration of individual frames 
can only change at a chain boundary. Just invert the framerate in the 
first header packet to get the frame duration.

> Actually, I phrased my question badly though:  What I originally wanted 
> to know was how to find the total duration of the movie.

One of us is confused then. That's what I just explained. :)

 -r

> >It's a little complicated. First you bisection-search based on the ogg 
> >page serial numbers to find all the chain segments. Then you read the 
> >bos pages for each chain segment to identify the codecs and get their 
> >granulepos mappings. Then you read the first and last data packets for 
> >each stream in each chain segment and use those to calculate the 
> >duration of each segment. The length of the ogg stream is the sum of the 
> >durations of each segment.