Time Conversion

kpowning

I'm using FFMPEG to convert my videos, but how can I get rid of the extra decimal that I get when getting the duration of a video?

Example:

0:2:34.2

1) Is there anyway to break this down to only show minutes and seconds?
2) I'm not able to get duration of an .flv video type anyone know a work around?

MY CODE BEING USED:

/// Get duration
					ob_start();
					passthru("/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -i \"". $sourceflv . "\" 2>&1");
					$duration = ob_get_contents();
					ob_end_clean();

				preg_match('/Duration: (.*?),/', $duration, $matches);
				$duration = $matches[1];
				if ($duration != '0:0:0'){
		   		$sql = "UPDATE uservideos SET duration='".$duration."' WHERE vkey = '".$vkey."'";		   
				mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error().$sql);
				}

sneakyimp

Use a different pattern to capture the duration:

preg_match('/Duration:\s+([\d:]*)(\.)*/', $duration, $matches);

or use [man]explode[/man] in the duration you get from $matches[1].

kpowning

THANK YOU 🙂

What if I only want to show minutes & seconds and get rid of: (00🙂 and leave 00:00?

sneakyimp

Use yet another pattern and it will be a different index within $matches:

preg_match('/Duration:\s+(\d{1,2}:)([\d:]*)(\.)*/', $duration, $matches);
$duration = $matches[2];

Keep in mind that I'm assuming the hours place will always be there with that pattern. If it's ever missing then the pattern will be grabbing the minutes in $matches[1].

You might also want to check and see if the hours spot is greater than zero -- just in case it's a long video.

preg_match('/Duration:\s+(\d{1,2}):([\d:]*)(\.)*/', $duration, $matches);
if (intval($matches[1]) > 0) {
  $duration = $matches[1] . ':' . $matches[2];
} else {
  $duration = $matches[2];
}

PS: Do you know of any open source software that runs on linux and can convert videos to ProRes?

kpowning

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 🙂

To be honest im not a video expert. I payed someone to help me get ffmpeg all setup on my site and now im making some final adjustments. Maybe checkout some of the ffmpeg libraries to be installed with ffmpeg there are a ton and I know ffmpeg will convert hd and i think ive heard prores.