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Reputation: 35

Checking video length in moviepy without rendering it

I want to create a python script what would show images for X seconds (the time until the audio goes), then go to the next image. I want the video to be X long. The lenght of the video will be always different cause of the audio. Anything that I can check the lenght of the unrendered video? My code:

from moviepy.editor import *

img = ['1.jpg']

clips = [ImageClip(m).set_duration(2)
      for m in img]


clip = VideoFileClip("test.mp4")
print( clip.duration )
if clip.duration > 601:
    print("clip is longer than 10 min")
else:
    print("clip is shorter than 10 min")

vid_clips = concatenate_videoclips(clips, method="compose")
vid_clips.write_videofile("test.mp4", fps=60)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 713

Answers (1)

FluidLight
FluidLight

Reputation: 471

Calling the command ffprobe would be faster than using moviepy:

import subprocess

def get_length(filename):
    result = subprocess.run(["ffprobe", "-v", "error", "-show_entries",
                             "format=duration", "-of",
                             "default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1", filename],
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
        stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
    return float(result.stdout)

duration = get_length("test.mp4")
print(duration) # 30.024000

Upvotes: 0

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