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ColdFusion UDF to get meta-info on podcast files

In order to automatically generate a podcast based on a couple of audio- or video-files, you’ll have to get some meta-information on those, like format, bitrate or duration. This function acts as a wrapper around FFmpeg which will make that information available to you from within your ColdFusion application. Most Linux distros will provide some ready-made binaries for FFmpeg from their package manager. On Debian you’d just do aptitude install ffmpeg and you’re set.