FFProbe

[matrunchyk]

Hi guys,

Sorry I'm writing this question to Issues section, but do you have any plans to support FFProbe?

How do you fetch information of a media?

Thank you.

[pascalbaljet]

The Media object you get when you 'open' a file, actually holds the Media object that belongs to the underlying driver. It handles dynamic method calls as you can see here. This way all methods of the underlying driver are still available to you.

// This gives you an instance of Pbmedia\LaravelFFMpeg\Media
$media = FFMpeg::fromDisk('videos')->open('video.mp4');

// The 'getStreams' method will be called on the underlying Media object since 
// it doesn't exists on this object.
$codec = $media->getStreams()->first()->get('codec_name');

If you want direct access to the underlying object, call the object as a function (invoke):

// This gives you an instance of Pbmedia\LaravelFFMpeg\Media
$media = FFMpeg::fromDisk('videos')->open('video.mp4');

// This gives you an instance of FFMpeg\Media\MediaTypeInterface
$baseMedia = $media();

[matrunchyk]

Wow, that's really flexible.
Maybe it would be cool to mention it in README.md.

Thank you for the fast response!

[pascalbaljet]

No problem, thanks for using it! I'll add it to the documentation in the next release 👍