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selective/video-type
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Video type detection

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selective/video-type
====================

[](#selectivevideo-type)

Video type detection library for PHP.

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Features
--------

[](#features)

- Detection of the video type based on its header
- No dependencies
- Very fast

### Supported formats

[](#supported-formats)

- **AVI** (Audio Video Interleave)
- **MKV**
- **MP4**
- **MPEG-1** Part 2
- **MPEG-2** Part 2
- **OGG** OGV
- **3G2** 3GPP2
- **3GP** 3GPP
- **WEBM**
- **QuickTime**
- **RealMedia**
- **WMV** (Windows Media Video)
- **FLV** (Adobe Flash Video)
- **MXF** (Material Exchange Format)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.1 - 8.5

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require selective/video-type

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Detect the video type of file

[](#detect-the-video-type-of-file)

```
use Selective\VideoType\VideoTypeDetector;
use Selective\VideoType\Provider\DefaultVideoProvider;
use SplFileObject;

$file = new SplFileObject('example.mp4');

$detector = new VideoTypeDetector();

// Add video detectors
$detector->addProvider(new DefaultVideoProvider());
$videoType = $detector->getVideoTypeFromFile($file);

// Get the video format
echo $videoType->getFormat(); // mp4

// Get the mime type
echo $videoType->getMimeType(); // video/mp4
```

### Detect the video type of in-memory object

[](#detect-the-video-type-of-in-memory-object)

```
$video = new SplTempFileObject();

$video->fwrite('my file content');

$detector = new VideoTypeDetector();

// Add video detectors
$detector->addProvider(new DefaultVideoProvider());

echo $detector->getVideoTypeFromFile($file)->getFormat();
```

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

46

—

FairBetter than 93% of packages

Maintenance68

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community14

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity79

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 67.2% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~752 days

Total

4

Last Release

189d ago

Major Versions

0.1.0 → 1.0.02019-09-07

PHP version history (2 changes)0.1.0PHP ^7.2

1.2.0PHP ~8.1.0 || ~8.2.0 || ~8.3.0 || ~8.4.0 || ~8.5.0

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![odan](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/781074?v=4)](https://github.com/odan "odan (39 commits)")[![peter279k](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9021747?v=4)](https://github.com/peter279k "peter279k (17 commits)")[![heinrichschiller](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/25958414?v=4)](https://github.com/heinrichschiller "heinrichschiller (1 commits)")[![qligier](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3299399?v=4)](https://github.com/qligier "qligier (1 commits)")

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Tags

forensicphpvideovideo-formatstypevideoformat

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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