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Allows you easily get meta information about any media file with unified interface. The library has no requirements of external libs or system unitilies.

Supported formats

Table of contents:

1. Usage
2. API
3. Why not using getID3?
4. Technical details

Usage

use wapmorgan\MediaFile\MediaFile;

try {
  $media = MediaFile::open('123.mp3');
  // for audio
  if ($media->isAudio()) {
    $audio = $media->getAudio();
    echo 'Duration: '.$audio->getLength().PHP_EOL;
    echo 'Bit rate: '.$audio->getBitRate().PHP_EOL;
    echo 'Sample rate: '.$audio->getSampleRate().PHP_EOL;
    echo 'Channels: '.$audio->getChannels().PHP_EOL;
  }
  // for video
  else {
    $video = $media->getVideo();
    // calls to VideoAdapter interface
    echo 'Duration: '.$video->getLength().PHP_EOL;
    echo 'Dimensions: '.$video->getWidth().'x'.$video->getHeight().PHP_EOL;
    echo 'Framerate: '.$video->getFramerate().PHP_EOL;
  }
} catch (wapmorgan\MediaFile\Exceptions\FileAccessException $e) {
  // FileAccessException throws when file is not a detected media
} catch (wapmorgan\MediaFile\Exceptions\ParsingException $e) {
   echo 'File is propably corrupted: '.$e->getMessage().PHP_EOL;
}

API

MediaFile

wapmorgan\wapmorgan\MediaFile

AudioAdapter

wapmorgan\MediaFile\AudioAdapter

VideoAdapter

wapmorgan\MediaFile\VideoAdapter

ContainerAdapter

wapmorgan\MediaFile\ContainerAdapter

Why not using getID3?

getID3 library is very popular and has a lot of features, but it's old and too slow.

Following table shows comparation of analyzing speed of fixtures, distributed with first release of MediaFile:

Technical information