Check length of uploaded video

Question

Users are going to be uploading video contents to my WordPress site.

How do I reject content if more than 1 minute or 60 seconds. They will be uploading via html or ajax form. Which is better to achieve this, JavaScript or php?

Both JavaScript and PHP. You can't ensure your validation is going to work client side. — Unknown, May 08 '18 at 11:41
Possible duplicate of [How to get video duration, dimension and size in PHP?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4847752/how-to-get-video-duration-dimension-and-size-in-php) — bigwolk, May 08 '18 at 11:42

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '18 at 11:52

You can get the video duration like that:

var vid = document.getElementById("video");
var duration = document.getElementById("duration");

vid.addEventListener('loadedmetadata', function() {
    duration.innerHTML = vid.duration;
});

<div id="duration"></div>
<video src="http://media.w3.org/2010/05/sintel/trailer.mp4" width=300 height=200 id="video"></video>

Otherwise, to get the video duration when the user select the file in the File Browser, you can check the already answered question here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29285597/1738016

Thanks much. I appreciate this – valucci Jun 06 '18 at 08:59 — valucci, Jun 06 '18 at 08:59

Check length of uploaded video

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