Get total length of videos in a particular directory in python

Question

I have downloaded a bunch of videos from coursera.org and have them stored in one particular folder. There are many individual videos in a particular folder (Coursera breaks

Answer 1

This link shows how to get the length of a video file https://stackoverflow.com/a/3844467/735204

import subprocess

def getLength(filename):
  result = subprocess.Popen(["ffprobe", filename],
    stdout = subprocess.PIPE, stderr = subprocess.STDOUT)
  return [x for x in result.stdout.readlines() if "Duration" in x]

If you're using that function, you can then wrap it up with something like

import os

for f in os.listdir('.'):
    print "%s: %s" % (f, getLength(f))