Php-MediaInfo

Introduction

PHP wrapper around the mediainfo command

Table of contents:

• Installation
• How to use
• Specials types
• Extra
• License

Installation

1 - Install mediainfo

You should install mediainfo:

On linux:

$ sudo apt-get install mediainfo

On Mac:

$ brew install mediainfo

2 - Integration in your php project

To use this library install it through Composer, run:

$ composer require mhor/php-mediainfo

How to use

Retrieve media information container

<?php
//...
use Mhor\MediaInfo\MediaInfo;
//...
$mediaInfo = new MediaInfo();
$mediaInfoContainer = $mediaInfo->getInfo('music.mp3');
//...

Get general information from media information container

$general = $mediaInfoContainer->getGeneral();

Get videos information from media information container

$videos = $mediaInfoContainer->getVideos();

foreach ($videos as $video) {
    // ... do something
}

Get audios information from media information container

$audios = $mediaInfoContainer->getAudios();

foreach ($audios as $audio) {
    // ... do something
}

Get subtitles information from media information container

$subtitles = $mediaInfoContainer->getSubtitles();

foreach ($subtitles as $subtitle) {
    // ... do something
}

Get images information from media information container

$images = $mediaInfoContainer->getImages();

foreach ($images as $image) {
    // ... do something
}

Get menus information from media information container

$menus = $mediaInfoContainer->getMenus();

foreach ($menus as $menu) {
    // ... do something
}

Example

<?php

require './vendor/autoload.php';

use Mhor\MediaInfo\MediaInfo;

$mediaInfo = new MediaInfo();
$mediaInfoContainer = $mediaInfo->getInfo('./SampleVideo_1280x720_5mb.mkv');

echo "Videos channel: \n";
echo "=======================\n";
foreach ($mediaInfoContainer->getVideos() as $video) {
    echo 'format: '.(string)$video->get('format')."\n";
    echo 'height: '.$video->get('height')->getAbsoluteValue()."\n";
    echo "\n---------------------\n";
}

echo "Audios channel: \n";
echo "=======================\n";
foreach ($mediaInfoContainer->getAudios() as $audio) {

    echo 'unique_id: '.$audio->get('unique_id') . "\n";
    echo 'format: '.$audio->get('format');
    echo "\n---------------------\n";
}

Ignore unknown types

By default unknown type throw an error this, to avoid this behavior, you can do:

$mediaInfo = new MediaInfo();
$mediaInfoContainer = $mediaInfo->getInfo('music.mp3', false);

$others = $mediaInfoContainer->getOthers();
foreach ($others as $other) {
    // ... do something
}

Access to information

Get all information into an array

$informationArray = $general->get();

Get one information by field name

Field Name are in lower case separated by "_"

$oneInformation = $general->get('count_of_audio_streams');

Specials types

Cover

For field:

• cover_data

Cover type will be applied

Duration

For fields:

• duration
• delay_relative_to_video
• video0_delay
• delay

Duration type will be applied

Mode

For fields:

• overall_bit_rate_mode
• overall_bit_rate
• bit_rate_mode
• compression_mode
• codec
• format
• kind_of_stream
• writing_library
• id
• format_settings_sbr
• channel_positions
• default
• forced
• delay_origin
• scan_type
• interlacement
• scan_type
• frame_rate_mode
• format_settings_cabac
• unique_id

Mode type will be applied

Rate

For fields:

• channel_s
• bit_rate
• sampling_rate
• bit_depth
• width
• nominal_bit_rate
• frame_rate
• format_settings_reframes
• height
• resolution
• maximum_bit_rate

Rate type will be applied

Ratio

For fields:

• display_aspect_ratio
• original_display_aspect_ratio

Ratio type will be applied

Size

For fields:

• file_size
• stream_size

Size type will be applied

Others

• All date fields will be transformed into Datetime php object

Extra

Use custom mediainfo path

$mediaInfo = new MediaInfo();
$mediaInfo->setConfig('command', '/usr/local/bin/mediainfo');
$mediaInfoContainer = $mediaInfo->getInfo('music.mp3');

Use url as filepath

$mediaInfo = new MediaInfo();
$mediaInfoContainer = $mediaInfo->getInfo('http://example.org/music/test.mp3');

MediaInfoContainer to JSON, Array or XML

$mediaInfo = new MediaInfo();
$mediaInfoContainer = $mediaInfo->getInfo('music.mp3');

$json = json_encode($mediaInfoContainer);
$array = $mediaInfoContainer->__toArray();
$xml = $mediaInfoContainer->__toXML();

Usage for WindowsOS

Download MediaInfo CLI from here. Extract zip-archive and place MediaInfo.exe somewhere. Use it:

$mediaInfo = new MediaInfo();
$mediaInfo->setConfig('command', 'C:\path\to\directory\MediaInfo.exe');
$mediaInfoContainer = $mediaInfo->getInfo('music.mp3');

Symfony integration

Look at this bundle: MhorMediaInfoBunde

Codeigniter integration

Look at this to use composer with Codeigniter

License

See LICENSE for more information