is-mp4

Check if a Buffer/Uint8Array is a MP4 video


Keywords
mp4, graphics, video, type, detect, check, is, exif, binary, buffer, uint8array
License
MIT
Install
npm install is-mp4@0.1.0

Documentation

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Check if a Buffer/Uint8Array is a MP4 video

Install

$ npm install --save is-mp4
$ bower install --save is-mp4
$ component install deepak1556/is-mp4

Usage

Node.js
var readChunk = require('read-chunk'); // npm install read-chunk
var isMP4 = require('is-mp4');
var buffer = readChunk.sync('bigbuckbunny.mp4', 0, 8);

isMP4(buffer);
//=> true
Browser
var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', 'bigbuckbunny.mp4');
xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';

xhr.onload = function () {
	isMP4(new Uint8Array(this.response));
	//=> true
};

xhr.send();

API

isMP4(buffer)

Accepts a Buffer (Node.js) or Uint8Array.

It only needs the first 8 bytes.