get-video-duration

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Get the duration of video files/streams with ffprobe.

Supported platforms

Currently this package only supports Linux, Windows 7+, and MacOS 10.9+. This package does not work in the browser, iOS or Android.

Install

``bash
$ npm install --save get-video-duration
`

Usage

`js
const { getVideoDurationInSeconds } = require('get-video-duration')

// From a local path...
getVideoDurationInSeconds('video.mov').then((duration) => {
console.log(duration)
})

// From a URL...
getVideoDurationInSeconds(
'http://clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/big_buck_bunny.mp4'
).then((duration) => {
console.log(duration)
})

// From a readable stream...

const fs = require('fs')
const stream = fs.createReadStream('video.mov')

getVideoDurationInSeconds(stream).then((duration) => {
console.log(duration)
})

// If you need to customize the path to ffprobe...
getVideoDurationInSeconds('video.mov', '/path/to/ffprobe').then((duration) => {
console.log(duration)
})
`

FAQ

I get a segmentation fault when trying to download a URL

This is a limitation of the underlying ffprobe binary, which has glibc statically linked and that prevents DNS resolution. Install nscd` package through your package manager to solve this issue.

License

MIT. Based on get-video-dimensions.

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