5.6 VideoPlayer duration of URL

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I am trying to get the duration of a video specified via URL in the new VideoPlayer. I know that VideoClips have a duration, but there doesn't seem to be an API for getting duration from a specified URL.

I have tried calculating it from frameCount and frameRate, ie

 videoPlayer.prepareCompleted += (val) =>
 {
       duration = videoPlayer.frameCount / videoPlayer.frameRate;
 }

but the value is off by a fraction of a second. Is there an accurate way to get the duration of video from a URL?

Answer 1

Answer by Suraksha226 · Aug 21, 2018 at 07:45 AM

Here is my solution to get the total length of a video by using URL, i made use of C# System.TimeSpan

 void TotalTimeOfVideo()
     {
         double time = videoplayer.frameCount / videoplayer.frameRate;
         System.TimeSpan VideoUrlLength = System.TimeSpan.FromSeconds(time);
         string minutes = (VideoUrlLength.Minutes).ToString("00");
         string seconds = (VideoUrlLength.Seconds).ToString("00");
         TotalMinutes.text = minutes;
         TotalSeconds.text = seconds;
     }

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Fenikkel · Mar 16, 2021 at 08:36 AM 0

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The video MUST be prepared to work:

 videoPlayer.prepareCompleted +=  TotalTimeOfVideo();
 videoPlayer.prepare();

If not, it will throw errors or NaN

5.6 VideoPlayer duration of URL

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