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Toodarday
Asked: 2019-05-22 06:51:37 +0800 CST

Get video length in hours:minutes:seconds round result to second

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Right now I am using the following command to get the output of a videos duration

ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 -sexagesimal 'video file.mp4'

The result is 0:33:29.410000

I need this result changed with the following

  • An additional 0 must be at the front 0:33:29.410000
  • The seconds must be rounded up or down. The final output should be 00:33:29
command-line video

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Use awk:

    awk -F: '{printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",$1,$2,$3}'

    or if you want to check the format before conversion to prevent errors:

    awk -F: '/^[0-9]+:[0-9]+:[0-9]+/ {printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",$1,$2,$3}'

    $ ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 -sexagesimal 'video file.mp4' | awk -F: '{printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",$1,$2,$3}'
00:33:29
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