i have lots of videos in my server and i use the following code to get the duration of the video and it works fine..
ob_start(); passthru("ffmpeg -i ".$srcfile." 2>&1"); $duration = ob_get_contents(); ob_end_clean();
But i could not get the duration for the files which has a space or any special characters like ( ‘ # % etc…
I cant rename the files as it is stored already and the names of those files are also stored in db and it would take a toll to change all in a live site..
So is there any method for accessing/reading the files with special characters?
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Incidentally, you should always use this for any shell arguments, less you want to make your application open to shell injection-attacks, which could be very dangerous.