PHP Class – getID3

Today I was working on a media managent CMS tool and needed the ability to know what size ( screen resolution ) a video is, similar but different to using getimagesize() for an image. I came across an article on php.net and a class project on soureforge that offers a wealth of info on media files of all types. I thought I would share what I found, getID3() is a PHP script that extracts useful information (such as ID3 tags, bitrate, playtime, etc.) from MP3s & other multimedia file formats (Ogg, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV, AVI, AAC, VQF, FLAC, MusePack, Real, QuickTime, Monkey’s Audio, MIDI and more).

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<?php
// include getID3() library (can be in a different directory if full path is specified)
 include_once('getid3.php');
 
// Initialize getID3 engine
$getID3 = new getID3;
 
 // File to get info from
 $file_location = './your/path/to/file.mov';
 
// Get information from the file
 $fileinfo = $getID3->analyze($file_location);
 getid3_lib::CopyTagsToComments($fileinfo);
 
 // Output results
if (!empty($fileinfo['video']['resolution_x'])) { echo '<p> video width: '.$fileinfo['video']['resolution_x'].'</p>'; }
if (!empty($fileinfo['video']['resolution_y'])) { echo '<p> video height: '.$fileinfo['video']['resolution_y'].'</p>'; }
?>

The package referenced (http://www.getid3.org/)