What's the best way to get video metadata from a video file in ASP.Net MVC using C#?

Question

I\'ve been searching on Google and StackOverflow for a good couple of hours. There seems to be a lot of similar questions on StackOverflow but they are all about 3-5 years o

Answer 1

ffmpeg also offers a special application ffprobe for reading metadata. We wrote a wrapper for .net and provided a nuget package, you can find it here: Alturos.VideoInfo

PM> Install-Package Alturos.VideoInfo

Example:

var videoFilePath = "myVideo.mp4";

var videoAnalyer = new VideoAnalyzer();
var analyzeResult = videoAnalyer.GetVideoInfo(videoFilePath);
var videoInfo = analyzeResult.VideoInfo;
//videoInfo.Format.Filename = "myVideo.mp4"
//videoInfo.Format.NbStreams = 1
//videoInfo.Format.NbPrograms = 0
//videoInfo.Format.FormatName = "mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2"
//videoInfo.Format.FormatLongName = "QuickTime / MOV"
//videoInfo.Format.StartTime = 0
//videoInfo.Format.Duration = 120 //seconds
//videoInfo.Format.Size = 2088470 //bytes
//videoInfo.Format.BitRate = 139231
//videoInfo.Format.ProbeScore = 100
//videoInfo.Format.Tags["encoder"] = Lavf57.76.100
//videoInfo.Streams[0].CodecType = "video" //Video, Audio
//videoInfo.Streams[0]...