how to get the clip information from the real media file

[varun aggarwal]

Hi i am building a webpage that will ask the people to upload the videos.
From those real media videos i have to grab the clip information. although the whole video format is bunch of binaries but is the cliip information should be text.
Is there any functio in php that can get that "meta information" from the .rm or .ram file. I dont know if this is the right place to ask because i have a unix system but i dont know if there is a command in unix that can do the same thing.

[pbmods]

I'm not familiar with any PHP builtin or extension for working with realmedia files. However, if you have a command-line app or script that can do this, you can use exec to call the app/script and capture its output.