FW: FW: getting info from video formats

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike [mailto:mike503@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:17 PM
> To: Chris Scott
> Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: FW:  getting info from video formats
> 
> On 7/28/08, Chris Scott <Chris.Scott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I agree.
> >
> > I use MPlayer to process videos. One script gets the video length like this.
> >
> > //use mplayer to pull some info from the video
> > $info = exec("\"$mplayer\" $videoPath/$videoName -identify -nosound -frames 0
> > $tmpInfoFile");
> > //and open the file it stores the data in
> > $infoFile = fopen("$tmpInfoFile", "rb");
> > //then parse for the video length
> > while(! feof($infoFile) )
> > {
> >        $lineBuffer = fgets($infoFile);
> >        if(preg_match("/ID_LENGTH=/", $lineBuffer))
> >        {
> >                $videoLength = (int) preg_replace("/ID_LENGTH=/", "", $lineBuffer);
> >        }
> > }
> 
> you could probably skip piping it to a tempfile - and just use popen()
> to open the process...


Yeah thanks.

I didn't like the way I was doing it!


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