get-video-duration

get-video-duration

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

$ npm install --save get-video-duration

Usage

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.