[dolphin] [Bug 481420] Sort by video length

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481420

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--- Comment #1 from tagwerk19 at innerjoin.org ---
(In reply to nealheinecke from comment #0)
> I'd like to be able to sort videos by length. I do understand the workaround
> by enabling indexing then sorting by audio length, but this not intuitive to
> new users and doesn't work for removable media. It does appear that there is
> a duration listed for files not indexed in the details tab of file
> properties, so the information is already collected to sort by.
The duration is metadata embedded in each of the files. To get it you either
need to open the file, extract and decode the metadata or ask a service that
has already done it....

Dolphin, on it's own, reads enough of the file to get the duration (when you
look at the properties, after an F11) but it doesn't read the metadata of all
the files it shows you and give you the durations in a "duration" column.

When Dolphin sees that Baloo is running and has indexed the folder, it will ask
it for the "Duration" values and display them. You can then sort them.

So, yes. You can do this but you depend on Baloo having done the work....

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