Native support for video meta data

[Antimated]

I'd like to have native support for getting video meta data. Stuff that I'm most interested in are the video dimensions.

Use case: Transforming a poster image based on the video's dimensions.

[wsydney76]

Quite sure this would require video processing software to be installed or using an external service, which I doubt would be required for Craft core.

However if the video is available on your local filesystem, it can easily be done in a custom module by using FFMpeg.

$probe = \FFMpeg\FFProbe::create();

$meta = $probe
    ->streams('path/to/your/video.mp4')
    ->videos()
    ->first();

$dimensions = $meta->getDimensions();
$width = $dimensions->getWidth();
$height = $dimensions->getHeight();

(We have seen those infos missing or incorrect though.)

If you want to extract an image from the video, this can be also be done:

$ffmpeg = \FFMpeg\FFMpeg::create();
$video = $ffmpeg->open($videoPath);
$frame = $video->frame(FFMpeg\Coordinate\TimeCode::fromSeconds(10));
$frame->save($imagePath);

/Mel