Error with newer versions of ffprobe

When the system version of ffprobe is newer, and no longer has the -show_format_entry option, an error is shown, and the transport stream file sticks around.

This fixes it:

diff --git a/common.py b/common.py
index cd4c266..fbe83d5 100644
--- a/common.py
+++ b/common.py
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ def get_duration(filename):
     cmd = [
         ffprobe,
         filename,
-        "-show_format_entry", "duration",
+        "-show_entries", "format=duration",
         "-v", "quiet",
     ]
     output = subprocess.check_output(cmd).decode("utf-8")

But you may need more to handle both the old and new versions.

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