Convert time (hr:min:secs) into seconds

Posted by arkin
September 14, 2008

I wrote this snippet to convert ffmpeg’s information output time into seconds, i can then determine the 25, 50 and 75 percentages to create 3 different thumbnails of a movie (using ffmpeg also).

Heres the snippet:

function time2seconds($time='00:00:00'){
  list($hr,$m,$s) = explode(':', $time);
  return ( (int)$hr*3600 ) + ( (int)$m*60 ) + (int)$s;
}

Hope you find this as useful as I have.

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Comments
Comment by Thomas on July 25, 2009 @ 1:34 pm

Simple!!! You the man :)

Comment by Vincent on July 25, 2009 @ 4:21 pm

thanks for the post, I was thinking to do it simple and quick, you got it!

Comment by 10x on September 18, 2009 @ 7:01 am

thanks, very nice

Comment by jatinder on March 25, 2010 @ 2:36 am

really good code, very easy and time saving for a programmer

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