Check if file is video

[ahmeddzcom]

Hi

i need check if file is video .

Tnx .

[BrewManNH]

Check it how, by file name, by its contents?

[ahmeddzcom]

the short and best  way . 

[iamtheky]

With so many flavors of format and compression you might just run ffmpeg against it and dump the properties.  I dont how reliable it would be, but if you dont want to go 3rd party you could probably inspect id3 tags.

[ahmeddzcom]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1975440/check-if-file-is-a-media-file-in-c-sharp

if file Extensions avi or mp4 or mkv or flv  ... then msg yes else msg no.

Edited October 17, 2017 by ahmeddzcom

[Jfish]

That stack overflow method creates a list of extensions - some of which are not video formats. There is also a winAPI call to retrieve a file's perceived type based on its extension (not sure how reliable it is).  Modified help file example below with list from StackOverflow example:

#include <WinAPIReg.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

global $mediaExtensions[16]=[".PNG", ".JPG", ".JPEG", ".BMP", ".GIF",".WAV", ".MID", ".MIDI", ".WMA", ".MP3", ".OGG", ".RMA",".AVI", ".MP4", ".DIVX", ".WMV"]
for $a=0 to ubound($mediaExtensions)-1
local $aData = _WinAPI_AssocGetPerceivedType($mediaExtensions[$a])
    If IsArray($aData) Then
        ConsoleWrite('(' & $mediaExtensions[$a] & ')' & @CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite('String: ' & $aData[2] & @CRLF)
    EndIf
next

 

[ahmeddzcom]

Just now, Jfish said:

That stack overflow method creates a list of extensions - some of which are not video formats. There is also a winAPI call to retrieve a file's perceived type based on its extension (not sure how reliable it is).  Modified help file example below with list from StackOverflow example:

#include <WinAPIReg.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

global $mediaExtensions[16]=[".PNG", ".JPG", ".JPEG", ".BMP", ".GIF",".WAV", ".MID", ".MIDI", ".WMA", ".MP3", ".OGG", ".RMA",".AVI", ".MP4", ".DIVX", ".WMV"]
for $a=0 to ubound($mediaExtensions)-1
local $aData = _WinAPI_AssocGetPerceivedType($mediaExtensions[$a])
    If IsArray($aData) Then
        ConsoleWrite('(' & $mediaExtensions[$a] & ')' & @CRLF)
        ConsoleWrite('String: ' & $aData[2] & @CRLF)
    EndIf
next

thanks

 

[mikell]

Simpler using a regular expression 

Local $extensions = "mp4|avi|flv|wmv|mpg|mpeg"  ; populate this as needed

If StringRegExp($filename, '(?i)\.(' & $extensions & ')$') Then Msgbox(0,"", "it is a video file")

 

Edited October 17, 2017 by mikell
done :)

[jguinch]

@mikell : don't forget (?i) 

[iamtheky]

what about .scr? what about super fast .ppts?

Edited October 17, 2017 by iamtheky

[mikell]

I never said that the list I wrote was all inclusive - reason why I added  "populate this as needed"