@remotion/media-parser

available from v4.0.190

This is a package that parses video and audio files to extract metadata and samples.

warning

Unstable API: This package is experimental. The API may change in the future.
The API for getting video metadata is stable and may be used in production.

Design goals:

• Support all relevant multimedia containers: .mp4, .mov, .webm, .mkv, .avi, .m3u8, .ts, .mp3, .wav, .aac and .flac.
• Easily get various information from multimedia files
• Work in the browser, and server runtimes (Node.js, Bun, Edge, etc.)
• Satisfy your query with minimal fetching
• Functional TypeScript API
• Be useful when passing unsupported media
• Extract samples and enable WebCodecs use cases
• Pausable, resumable and cancellable
• Seeking - continue parsing in a different section of the file (not yet implemented)
• No dependencies

Installation

npm

npm i --save-exact @remotion/media-parser@4.0.266

yarn

pnpm i @remotion/media-parser@4.0.266

pnpm

bun i @remotion/media-parser@4.0.266

bun

yarn --exact add @remotion/media-parser@4.0.266

This assumes you are currently using v4.0.266 of Remotion.
Also update remotion and all `@remotion/*` packages to the same version.
Remove all ^ character in front of the version numbers of it as it can lead to a version conflict.

Guide

Getting video metadata

Simple examples of extracting video metadata

Available fields

Information you can get using the media parser

Fast and slow operations

Efficently use parseMedia()

Pause, resume and abort

Steer the parsing process

Extract ID3 tags and EXIF data

Get embedded tags from video files

Format support

What you can parse with Media Parser

Runtime support

Where you can run Media Parser

Foreign file types

Get information from the errors when passing unsupported file types

WebCodecs

How Media Parser integrates with WebCodecs

APIs

The following APIs are available:

parseMedia()

Parse a media file.

downloadAndParseMedia()

Download and parse a media file.

mediaParserController()

Pause, resume and abort the parse.

nodeReader

Read a file from the local file system.

fetchReader

Read a file using fetch().

webFileReader

Read a file from <input type="file">.

nodeWriter

Write a file to the local file system using Node.

License

Remotion License