You might have read my post about my FLV meta data and cue point reader/writer. You might also know that the F4V format (which really is simple MP4+H264+AAC) succeeded to the FLV format, and is supported by Flash 9.0.115 and up.
The MP4Info class is a simple extensible PHP class reading the MP4 container’s frames (called boxes) to get various information, namely the video duration, the video/audio codecs, the width and the height, as well as the embedded XMP meta data.
The F4V format is better than the FLV format in many aspects:
- Better compression ratio
- Better quality at similar bit rates
- Open source compressors available, through ffmpeg and libh264 (Flash 8 On2 VP6 codec is proprietary)
- Decoding H.264 is a lot less CPU intensive on the host computer than decoding On2 VP6
You’ll find the project at Google Code, under php-mp4info.
1 As per Adobe’s Adobe Flash Player Version Penetration statistics, on June 11, 2009
2 F4V logo at the top found at Flash Develop And Design
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Saturday 13 June 2009 7:49 pm
Cool, it works extraordinarily well !!
Incredible! I tested it with my video maked with my nokia n93i (h264 but incompatible with flash mp4 format video) that I was renamed from .mp4 to .f4v and putted it inside “TestFiles” directory. It extract all informations !
..and another incredible thing is that flash movie player cannot able to play that video!
Wednesday 24 June 2009 11:17 am
haven’t even opened the url and I already love you:)
for FLV I could do it myself, but for mp4, I have been looking everywhere:) and this is PHP too!:)
great work!
Wednesday 14 October 2009 6:22 pm
Wow – We needed this for our Horse Racing Melbourne Cup site. It’s worked! We have calculated the length of videos we are supplied with and display them online. Very nice