Calculating video length

Shotstack API
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Hello,

At the moment my app calculates the length (in seconds) of uploaded videos via html embedding. This results in a long wait time when the user uploads multiple videos at once, often he thinks the app has crashed when in fact it just takes a really long time.

Does anyone know of a more efficient way to calculate the length (in seconds) of uploaded videos in shotstack or via some external service or API?

Thanks

Paul

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Have you tried using the media inspector API?

If you’re using js you could use a Promise.all to retrieve the duration of each video file uploaded.

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Great thank you, I will give this a try!