Scanning a file

[Lasse Vågsæther Karlsen]

David Rasmussen wrote:
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> If you must know, the above one-liner actually counts the number of 
> frames in an MPEG2 file. I want to know this number for a number of 
> files for various reasons. I don't want it to take forever.
<snip>

Don't you risk getting more "frames" than the file actually have? What 
if the encoded data happens to have the magic byte values for something 
else?

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