Best Practice to Python Get Video Duration with MoviePy – Python Tutorial

By | September 11, 2019
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MoviePy is a python library, which can help us to operate video. In this tutorial, we will introduce how to get video duration with it. You can learn and do by following our tutorial.

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Install moviepy

  1. pip install moviepy
pip install moviepy

Import libraries

  1. from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
  2. import datetime
from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip
import datetime

Create a VideoFileClip object with video file

  1. video = 'D:\\demo.mp4'
  2. clip = VideoFileClip(video)
video = 'D:\\demo.mp4'
clip = VideoFileClip(video)

Get video druation

  1. duration = clip.duration
  2. print("video duration is "+ str(duration) + " seconds")
duration = clip.duration
print("video duration is "+ str(duration) + " seconds")

The output is:

  1. video duration is 856.86 seconds
video duration is 856.86 seconds

Convert duration seconds to hour, minute and second

  1. video_time = str(datetime.timedelta(seconds = int(duration)))
  2. print(video_time)
video_time = str(datetime.timedelta(seconds = int(duration)))
print(video_time)

The duration of this video is: 0:14:16

This value is correct.

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