video/.agents/skills/remotion-best-practices/rules/get-video-duration.md

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name	description	metadata
get-video-duration	Getting the duration of a video file in seconds with Mediabunny	tags duration, video, length, time, seconds

Getting video duration with Mediabunny

Mediabunny can extract the duration of a video file. It works in browser, Node.js, and Bun environments.

Getting video duration

import { Input, ALL_FORMATS, UrlSource } from "mediabunny";

export const getVideoDuration = async (src: string) => {
  const input = new Input({
    formats: ALL_FORMATS,
    source: new UrlSource(src, {
      getRetryDelay: () => null,
    }),
  });

  const durationInSeconds = await input.computeDuration();
  return durationInSeconds;
};

Usage

const duration = await getVideoDuration("https://remotion.media/video.mp4");
console.log(duration); // e.g. 10.5 (seconds)

Video files from the public/ directory

Make sure to wrap the file path in staticFile():

import { staticFile } from "remotion";

const duration = await getVideoDuration(staticFile("video.mp4"));

In Node.js and Bun

Use FileSource instead of UrlSource:

import { Input, ALL_FORMATS, FileSource } from "mediabunny";

const input = new Input({
  formats: ALL_FORMATS,
  source: new FileSource(file), // File object from input or drag-drop
});

const durationInSeconds = await input.computeDuration();