Check a video's size

Viewing headers?

[ahmedtheking]

How can I check, on the server with PHP, the screen size (res) of a video? IE, how can I use PHP to check the file's headers?

[coopster]

I don't know, Ming [php.net] perhaps?

Or are you asking how to read headers from a different site? You could always open your own socket and read the headers in that way.

[ahmedtheking]

Well, I thought of opening a file and trying to read it's headers as most video files have the size in their headers, but for some strage reason, I really can't seem to find out how! I mean if I an fsockopen, it only seems to put headers, not read the file's headers.

[gruber]

I get video size in my scrtips using mplayer

mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -identify file.avi

then parse output

[ahmedtheking]

I'm on a shared server so I can't install apps and libs!

[coopster]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, gruber. That's a good idea, execute a system command using a tool that can tell you the information you need. Anybody have a solution for non-Windows platforms?