Determining the length of a file using aRts

[Charles Samuels]

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Sunday 15 September 2002 07:43 pm, skrev Jason Wood:
> Hi,
>
> My application needs to be able to determine the length of an audio/movie
> clip as quickly as possible, but I am having trouble determining the best
> way to do this.
>
> The only method I have using aRts at present is to open a play object, wait
> for it to start playing, test it in various ways to discover when the
> overallTime() function is returning a valid value, and then to stop and
> close the playobject again. This is not a method I can use in my
> application.

You don't need to wait for it to start playing.  Just until after you open it.

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