In this article, we will learn how to fix the Infinity Audio/Video duration issue using JavaScript.
We can use the duration property to get the length of the current Audio/Video in seconds. Unfortunately, with some Audio/Video we will see the duration as Infinity. A chrome bug that causes the duration not to be available under certain circumstances. The issue is in WebKit browsers, the metadata is loaded after the Audio/Video. So the duration is not available when the JS runs.
To solve this issue we just have to use addEventListener as given below.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<video src="myVideo.mp4" id="myVideo" height="200" width="400" controls>
Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video>
<button onclick="getVideoDuration()" type="button">Get Video Duration</button>
<script>
var vid = document.getElementById("myVideo");
vid.addEventListener('loadedmetadata', function () {
if (vid.duration == Infinity) {
vid.currentTime = 1e101;
vid.ontimeupdate = function () {
this.ontimeupdate = () => {
return;
}
vid.currentTime = 0;
return;
}
}
});
function getVideoDuration() {
alert(vid.duration);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Output:
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Thanks a lot.I have finally fixed with this hack. You saved me.
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Any idea how can I get the duration in reacting with blob object URL?