I have uploaded my pictures and movies from my iPhone, to my CentOS web server and now I want to show those on my homepage (I want them hosted locally - not via iCloud). The pictures are no problem, as I can access their data via exif, but it seems not so easy with the movie files.
My server is CentOS with Apache and I am using PHP 8.1 and for now I am planning to only include stuff from my iPhone, but of course it could be expected that I will upload from other cameras also later.
The reason I need the orientation is that I will encapsulate this in to Bootstrap 4.6, to have it automatically being responsive. I will do this:
Landscape movie format (note the 16by9):
<div class='embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9'>
<video poster='mythumbnail.jpg' controls preload='metadata'>
<source src='mymovie.mov' type='video/mp4' />
<span style='background-color:red;color:white;'>(your browser cannot show this video)</span>
</video>
</div>
Portrait movie format (note the 9by16):
<div class='embed-responsive embed-responsive-9by16'>
<video poster='mythumbnail.jpg' controls preload='metadata'>
<source src='mymovie.mov' type='video/mp4' />
<span style='background-color:red;color:white;'>(your browser cannot show this video)</span>
</video>
</div>
Does anyone have any good ideas on how to get the orientation from a MOV file? :-)
CodePudding user response：
Until someone provides a better and ideally a native PHP solution, then I will accept this answer based on @CBroe's comment.
PHP does not easily offer a possibility to query video files, but a possibility within CentOS (and other Linux distros) is using the mediainfo application, which will be able to query a whole lot of files for its media type and some meta-information. This is true for picture, video and audio files but also e.g. PDF files and others.
To do that from PHP then exec can be used - do also make sure to escape the command argument with escapeshellarg, to make it safe for the shell:
$param = escapeshellarg("myfile.mov"); // make sure the argument is safe to pass
exec("mediainfo $param", $outputArray); // store line-by-line output in an array
The mediainfo will give something like this as output and each line from here will be in the $outputArray array variable:
Array
(
[0] => General
[1] => Complete name : /myfolder/MVI_0447.mov
[2] => Format : MPEG-4
[3] => Format profile : QuickTime
[4] => Codec ID : qt 2007.09 (qt /CAEP)
[5] => File size : 163 MiB
[6] => Duration : 1 min 4 s
[7] => Overall bit rate : 21.1 Mb/s
[8] => Encoded date : UTC 2014-08-10 15:32:22
[9] => Tagged date : UTC 2014-08-10 15:32:22
[10] => CNTH : ?^P??#?k??T???o?2p com.apple.quicktime.make : Canon
[12] => com.apple.quicktime.model : Canon IXUS 135
[13] => com.apple.quicktime.rating.user : 0.000
[14] =>
[15] => Video
[16] => ID : 1
[17] => Format : AVC
[18] => Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
[19] => Format profile : [email protected]
[20] => Format settings : 1 Ref Frames
[21] => Format settings, CABAC : No
[22] => Format settings, Reference frames : 1 frame
[23] => Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=12
[24] => Codec ID : avc1
[25] => Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
[26] => Duration : 1 min 4 s
[27] => Bit rate : 19.5 Mb/s
[28] => Width : 1 280 pixels
[29] => Height : 720 pixels
[30] => Display aspect ratio : 16:9
[31] => Frame rate mode : Constant
[32] => Frame rate : 25.000 FPS
[33] => Color space : YUV
[34] => Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
[35] => Bit depth : 8 bits
[36] => Scan type : Progressive
[37] => Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.848
[38] => Stream size : 151 MiB (93%)
[39] => Language : English
[40] => Encoded date : UTC 2014-08-10 15:32:22
[41] => Tagged date : UTC 2014-08-10 15:32:22
[42] => Color range : Full
[43] => Color primaries : BT.709
[44] => Transfer characteristics : BT.709
[45] => Matrix coefficients : BT.601
[46] => Codec configuration box : avcC
[47] =>
[48] => Audio
[49] => ID : 2
[50] => Format : PCM
[51] => Format settings : Little / Signed
[52] => Codec ID : sowt
[53] => Duration : 1 min 4 s
[54] => Bit rate mode : Constant
[55] => Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
[56] => Channel(s) : 2 channels
[57] => Channel layout : L R
[58] => Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
[59] => Bit depth : 16 bits
[60] => Stream size : 11.9 MiB (7%)
[61] => Language : English
[62] => Encoded date : UTC 2014-08-10 15:32:22
[63] => Tagged date : UTC 2014-08-10 15:32:22
[64] =>
[65] =>
)
This is then for you to interpret - and to handle the numerous possibilities for bad meta-data, when using a variety of camera sources or medias :-) E.g. for picture files I am only using mediainfo to determine that it is a picture file and then I pass the data via exif_read_data as this is much more detailed.
One minor note though. For my particular setup it seems that exec has some problems with Danish national characters, as it cannot read files with these characters inside. I expect this to be something related to some character encoding issue, but never figured that out - view PHP "exec" cannot access filenames which have national Danish characters? for details.