mpeg-2 library to extract video duration

Question

I have recently ventured out into dealing with audio and video related coding and i have limited knowledge about neither one of them.

It happens that i have a projec

Answer 1

another option besides opencv or ffmpeg is maybe gstreamer:

import gst
from gst.pbutils import Discoverer

d = Discoverer(5000000000)
vid_info = d.discover_uri("file://") # needs to be a full path
duration = vid_info.get_duration()

# convert to seconds
duration / gst.SECOND

However, this solution crashs randomly (every 100 file or so) with the current gstreamer version (on Ubuntu 12.04). And maybe you need some gstreamer plugin for working with mpg-2; I currently don't know which ones.

I am also working on a more or less large media project, which should be able to handle a large range of codecs and containers and every library we are using is more or less a mess (wrong values or instable). Maybe there is so some specialized mpg library out there.

Oh and VLC is using ffmpeg; so if you are not allowed to use ffmpeg you maybe are also not allowed to use VLC too.