selective/video-type

Video type detection

1.2.0 2025-11-07 15:12 UTC

Requires

• php: ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0 || ~8.4.0 || ~8.5.0

Requires (Dev)

• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2
• phpunit/phpunit: ^10
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^4

MIT

• type
• format
• video

README

Video type detection library for PHP.

Features

• Detection of the video type based on its header
• No dependencies
• Very fast

Supported formats

• AVI (Audio Video Interleave)
• MKV
• MP4
• MPEG-1 Part 2
• MPEG-2 Part 2
• OGG OGV
• 3G2 3GPP2
• 3GP 3GPP
• WEBM
• QuickTime
• RealMedia
• WMV (Windows Media Video)
• FLV (Adobe Flash Video)
• MXF (Material Exchange Format)

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 - 8.5

Installation

composer require selective/video-type

Usage

Detect the video type of file

use Selective\VideoType\VideoTypeDetector;
use Selective\VideoType\Provider\DefaultVideoProvider;
use SplFileObject;

$file = new SplFileObject('example.mp4');

$detector = new VideoTypeDetector();

// Add video detectors
$detector->addProvider(new DefaultVideoProvider());
$videoType = $detector->getVideoTypeFromFile($file);

// Get the video format
echo $videoType->getFormat(); // mp4

// Get the mime type
echo $videoType->getMimeType(); // video/mp4

Detect the video type of in-memory object

$video = new SplTempFileObject();

$video->fwrite('my file content');

$detector = new VideoTypeDetector();

// Add video detectors
$detector->addProvider(new DefaultVideoProvider());

echo $detector->getVideoTypeFromFile($file)->getFormat();

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.