multiple return formats on Duration?

[guthrie]

I am using the command line tool to get video file durations and parse the returned strings in Python.

But I find that I am not getting a consistent return string:

#  Video>exiftool -Duration "20141206155829 -File2.MTS"
# Duration                        : 5.67 s
#
#C:Video>exiftool -Duration 20141206160513 -File3.MTS
# Duration                        : 0:00:40

??

Also I'd really like to just get the time back, not the label and formatted string, e.g. "0:00:40", or better yet, just in seconds? "40".

[Phil Harvey]

Add -n to your command, or request -duration# instead of -duration.

- Phil

[guthrie]

Thanks, very good!

It would be nice to just get the number/value, and not the tag - since that is already specified in the argument request.

[Phil Harvey]

Add -s3 too then.

- Phil

[guthrie]

Thanks again!