Querying an audio/video file for information

Question

I want a PHP function which receives the path to a file and returns an array of information about it. The PHP file can call FFmpeg.

Returned data should be something

Answer 1

I'd take a look at Mediainfo. If you pass in --Output=XML, it'll give you something like this:

Movie.webm
Matroska
215 MiB
28mn 39s
1 049 Kbps
Safari
Lavf52.78.0
Lavf52.78.0



1
V_VP8
V_VP8
28mn 39s
529 Kbps
768 pixels
432 pixels
16:9
25.000 fps
0.064
108 MiB (50%)
Norwegian



2
Vorbis
1
A_VORBIS
28mn 39s
Constant
500 Kbps
2 channels
48.0 KHz
16 bits
102 MiB (48%)
libVorbis 20090709 (UTC 2009-07-09)
Norwegian