# Does anyone can tell the way of getting total duration of an flv file through action

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**Created:** [June 1, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-can-tell-the-way-of-getting-total-duration-of-an-flv-file-through-action/289525 "2009-06-01T12:30:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![akshoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@akshoy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/akshoy)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2009, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-anyone-can-tell-the-way-of-getting-total-duration-of-an-flv-file-through-action/289525/1 "2009-06-01T12:30:56Z")

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[COLOR=red]Does anyone can tell the way of getting total duration of an flv file through **action script 3.0** without using metadata event?[/COLOR] Actually I am using metadata and having problem in some special cases, therefore I want to know any other alternative way.