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joe
joe

Reputation: 1713

How can I get the length of a video in node.js

My backend needs to check to see if a video is under 60 seconds, or else it doesn't add the link to the database. Is there any easy solution if I have the file on disk? Something simple like videofile.getDuration()

I checked out FFMEG on npm but I'm not sure if that's what I need or if that's even up to date.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6829

Answers (1)

nass600
nass600

Reputation: 599

I use ffprobe for the task.

If you follow the README and you get to read the streams' info you will be able to get the duration by accessing the following tag on the video stream:

info.streams[0].tags.DURATION

There might be variants according to the kind of video file you are parsing, this example works with mkv.

Upvotes: 1

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