ffmpeg time format : what does ".80" mean in 00:05:25.80 for ffmpeg?

Question

ffmpeg shows an video duration is 00:05:25.80, what does ".80" mean in ffmpeg ?

Is it possible for ffmpeg to return the video duration in seconds rather than this format ?

Answer 1

What does ".80" mean in ffmpeg?

Same as it does everywhere else, eight tenths and zero hundredths. That is, the full duration is five minutes and twenty-five point eight seconds.

Is it possible for ffmpeg to return the video duration in seconds?

ffprobe uses seconds by default. What you're looking at in there in ffmpeg is just information for human convenience.

$ ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 input.mp4
325.800000