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

  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)

Using with local files

For local files, use FileSource instead of UrlSource:

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

const durationInSeconds = await input.computeDuration();

Using with staticFile in Remotion

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