@remotion/media-parser

available from v4.0.190

This is an experimental package that parses video and other media files in order to extract relevant metadata.

warning

Unstable API: This package is experimental. The API may change in the future.
The API for getting video metadata is stable and may be used in production.

Design goals:

• Support as many relevant containers as possible - currently: .mp4, .mov, .webm, .mkv, .avi, .ts, .mp3, .wav, .aac and .flac.
• Work in the browser, and server runtimes (Node.js, Bun, Edge, etc.)
• Enable powerful WebCodecs use cases
• Fine-grained querying, only download as much data as necessary
• Functional TypeScript API
• Be useful when passing unsupported media
• Solve problems that are relevant for Remotion users

Installation

npm

npm i --save-exact @remotion/media-parser@4.0.252

yarn

pnpm i @remotion/media-parser@4.0.252

pnpm

bun i @remotion/media-parser@4.0.252

bun

yarn --exact add @remotion/media-parser@4.0.252

This assumes you are currently using v4.0.252 of Remotion.
Also update remotion and all `@remotion/*` packages to the same version.
Remove all ^ character in front of the version numbers of it as it can lead to a version conflict.

Guide

Getting video metadata

Simple examples of extracting video metadata

Fast and slow operations

Efficently use parseMedia()

Extract ID3 tags and EXIF data

Get embedded tags from video files

Runtime supports

Where you can run Media Parser

WebCodecs

How Media Parser integrates with WebCodecs

APIs

The following APIs are available:

parseMedia()

Parse a media file.

downloadAndParseMedia()

Download and parse a media file.

nodeReader

Read a file from the local file system.

fetchReader

Read a file using fetch().

webFileReader

Read a file from <input type="file">.

License

Remotion License