I needed a library to perform basic functions such as length, size, etc of a video file (i'm guessing through the metadata or tags) so I chose ffmpeg. Valid video formats are primarily those prevalent in movie files viz. wmv, wmvhd, avi, mpeg, mpeg-4, etc. If you can, please help me with the method(s) to be used for knowing the duration the video file. I'm on a Linux platform.