How to get length in milliseconds of video from URL without video view in Android?
android
Solution
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);
Problem
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.