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programmatically get the width and height of quicktime .mov file

so lets say you load a .mov file into a quicktime player on a webpage.
how do you determine the size of the video? - width & height.
not the size that you may have set the player to but the size of the video.

thanks

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gr8gonzo

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dgrafx

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I see - I was hoping it could be done with a loadedmetadata event listener or something similar.
Why is it that mov files can't be read - at least it's size - like an mp4 for example can?

gr8gonzo

No, that event ties to the HTML 5 <video> tag, which only supports a few common formats, but does not support the .mov format.

It's pretty easy to convert .mov to a compatible format, but that's a more permanent change, so if you're just looking for dimensions of a .mov file without converting it, you'll need to use a server-side utility.

gr8gonzo

For what it's worth, FFMpeg works with a LOT of different formats, not just .MOV. So if you were ever considering the possibility of other non-HTML5 formats coming along...

dgrafx

ASKER

ok thanks.
how would i get JUST width and height with ffmpeg?

gr8gonzo

You would need to use a server-side script to execute ffmpeg, capture the output, and parse it out. A regular expression would probably do the trick.

If you don't know PHP or ASP or whatever scripting language you have available to you, then I'd suggest you post a new question in one of those forums (whichever is appropriate) and ask for help in the specifics.

dgrafx

ASKER

ok thanks ...
I was hoping for a width height variable!

gr8gonzo

A regular expression can figure out the values and put them into width/height variables, but something's gotta parse the output first.