Video-mimetype

Get a mimetype from a video for use with MediaSource API.

Purpose

Detects mimetype of given video and output a mimetype compatible with MediaSource API.

Usage

const videoMimeType = require('video-mimetype');
function main () {
  const result = await videoMimeType(__dirname + '/video.mp4');
  console.log(result);
}

Prints:

{
  height: 100,
  width: 100,
  format: 'mp4',
  mime: 'video/mp4; codecs="avc1.4d401f, mp4a.40.2"',
  ffprobe: /* json output from ffprobe */
}

API

video-mimetype ⇒ object

Returns: object - object comprising width, height, format (mimetype), ffprobe metadata

| Param | Type | | --- | --- | | filePath | string |

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Installation

This module is installed via npm:

$ npm install video-mimetype

License

The BSD License

Copyright (c) 2018, Tim Allen

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