Video duration length time?

Is there any function have to take video duration time value from Controller just like image name getClientOriginalName()?

Helmchen

8 years ago

Best Answer

Level 15

Years ago I used php-ffmpeg.

But I'm really not sure if that's up to date.

OOP version

https://github.com/PHP-FFMpeg/PHP-FFMpeg#ffprobe

specifically

$ffprobe = FFMpeg\FFProbe::create();
$ffprobe
    ->format('/path/to/video/mp4') // extracts file informations
    ->get('duration');             // returns the duration property

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usman350

3 years ago

Level 1

@Helmchen Thanks Its Working

Israel Pereira

8 years ago

Level 1

As @Helmchen wrote, PHP-FFMpeg is a great tool. The only downside is that it seems to be no longer updated.

There is also a great tool called getID3 by James Heinrich. (https://github.com/JamesHeinrich/getID3)

Here is an example of a use case.

$getID3 = new getID3;

$video_file = $getID3->analyze('path-to-your-video');

// Get the duration in string, e.g.: 4:37 (minutes:seconds)
$duration_string = $video_file['playtime_string'];

// Get the duration in seconds, e.g.: 277 (seconds)
$duration_seconds = $video_file['playtime_seconds'];

You can find more information on the Github page and in http://getid3.sourceforge.net/source/structure.txt.

husseinrubaie98

5 years ago

Level 3

Thank you. I think this is helpful. But I'm getting an error when analyzing the video (could not open file, !file_exists, !file_readable). I don't remember the full error, but I believe it's related to the storage permissions, since my videos are private and not public.

So, could you please tell us what did you do so it worked on your project?

Thanks in advance!!

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