# Getting the total Duration of a Movie

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-the-total-duration-of-a-movie/230766>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 28, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-the-total-duration-of-a-movie/230766 "2007-06-28T19:57:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ascendancy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ascendancy1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ascendancy1)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-the-total-duration-of-a-movie/230766/1 "2007-06-28T19:57:11Z")

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I have a video object attached to my flash and I want to display a time readout of how far into the video has been played. I know I need a dynamic text field, but I cannot find any methods of the NetStream that gets the total duration.