Counting No of Frames

Hi All,
I want to know if there is a way of counting the number of frames a particular media file has without going through and simply playing the whole clip and counting each frame as it is played. I am a newbie to JMF so go easy guys if I have missed something really obvious,
Adam

sure
it is possible use Framepositioningcontrol on a stopped player
     fpc = (FramePositioningControl)player.getControl javax.media.control.FramePositioningControl");
     duration = player.getDuration();
     if (duration != Duration.DURATION_UNKNOWN)
totalFrames = fpc.mapTimeToFrame(duration);
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I agree, something isn't right. I've watched tutorials where the renders appear to happen in a "reasonable" amount of time and the numbers of frames and videos prviews never increases. So I don't know what is going on with me.
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