How to get length in milliseconds of video from URL without video view in Android?

Question

I am making a Media player in Android. I require a code to get length of video without using a video view.

I saw many pages in Stack overflow but ever page used to show how to get length of a video in video view but i require without video view.

Answer 1

You could use the MediaMetadataRetriever to get such an information. This class is meant to be used by users who wants to get specific informations about a media without having to use the MediaPlayer.

Here's a sample of how to use it :

MediaMetadataRetriever retriever = new MediaMetadataRetriever(); retriever.setDataSource(your_data_source); String time = retriever.extractMetadata(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_DURATION); long timeInmillisec = Long.parseLong( time ); long duration = timeInmillisec / 1000; long hours = duration / 3600; long minutes = (duration - hours * 3600) / 60; long seconds = duration - (hours * 3600 + minutes * 60);