[gst-devel] How do get the number of frames in a video file?

[Nick Haddad]

Anyone else have ideas on how to best do this?

Thanks,
-Nick

On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Nick Haddad wrote:

> I really need to get this information before playback starts.  I want
> to present the user with the frame count after they open a file.
>
> If there is no generalized way to do do this (by asking the decode
> bin?) Is there a way seek through by frames without decoding the video
> in the files?  If there is then I can do a quick walk through frame by
> frame to do my count.
>
> Thanks,
> -Nick
>
> On Feb 20, 2008, at 5:54 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> On Feb 19, 2008 11:48 PM, Nick Haddad <nhaddad at mathworks.com> wrote:
>>> I want to retrieve the duration of a video file in frames, but can't
>>> figure out the best way to do this.
>>>
>>> Calling...
>>>
>>> GstFormat fmt = GST_FORMAT_DEFAULT;
>>> gst_element_query_duration( _pipeline, &fm, &numFrames)
>>>
>>> ...doesn't work.  I'm assuming because the pipeline doesn't know
>>> about
>>> the "default format" (GST_FORMAT_TIME works fine).
>>>
>>> Which element in my pipeline should I query for the number of video
>>> frames?  Is this even possible.  Currently I am building a pipeline
>>> using decodebin.
>>
>> Do you need it at any point in time or would it be OK at the end of
>> the playback?
>>
>> -- 
>> Felipe Contreras
>
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