On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am writing a program using pygame to play musical sound cues. I need > a way to determine the play length of a sound file. I can get the > length of .mp3 files with python-pymad. I have also installed > python-pyogg and python-pyvorbis. It seems that I should be able to get > the length of .ogg files with one of these packages, but the > documentation and examples do not show how. > > I have googled for these packages and basically have found that > documentation does not seem to exist, yet. It was suggesated to check > the docs for libvorbis, but I haven't been able to find this, either. > > The output of VorbisFile.info() seems to be an object with various > attributes, probably including the play length, but the only attributes > shown in the example are channels and rate. The module is a .so file, > so I can not look at python source to determine the other attributes and > I would rather not have to download C source code and plow through > that. Is there a list of the attributes for this object, somewhere? > > Can anyone give me an easy way to find the play length of an .ogg file, > or point me to where the documentation exists.
I would take a look at the source for the 'ogginfo' command, or if performance is not important, just parse its output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/digbyt> ogginfo /home/digbyt/work2/... filename=/home/digbyt/work2/localize/testdata/alphabet.ogg header_integrity=pass stream_integrity=pass file_truncated=false version=0 channels=1 bitrate_upper=-1000 bitrate_nominal=128000 bitrate_lower=-1000 bitrate_average=84458 length=59.443084 playtime=0:59 -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
