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by uptown 1712 days ago
Came across a video on YouTube recently that I think may be misreporting its length due to this issue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Grsvyt5xps

The video is 22 minutes but it's reported at nearly 3 hours in length.

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But OP's video is just a video with very low frame rate (reported as 0.030 FPS from `mediainfo`). There is nothing broken about it.

Just become its file size is small, does not mean it can't be 15 hours long (one of the author is takeaway is "[t]he size of a video file is not an proper indicator for how long it is": but even without this hack, you can't do that either, since video can have whatever bitrates.)

I saw this one misreported as 22 minutes in Firefox and Discord. Only 1:43 ? in reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RerbrfVd1nI

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