https://github.com/caffco/get-video-duration
Get the duration of a video file
https://github.com/caffco/get-video-duration
ffprobe typescript video video-duration
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Get the duration of a video file
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/caffco/get-video-duration
- Owner: caffco
- License: mit
- Created: 2015-10-19T13:27:44.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-03-04T04:47:05.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-04-01T10:08:34.165Z (about 1 year ago)
- Topics: ffprobe, typescript, video, video-duration
- Language: TypeScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 1.62 MB
- Stars: 139
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 18
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE
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# 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](https://github.com/mgmtio/get-video-dimensions).
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