Media metadata

[dennisrijsdijk]

Description of the Change

This PR introduces better handling for video duration, removing the overlay-dependent method.
It also introduces some variables and frontendCommunicator events related to media duration.

$audioDuration and $videoDuration take a file path or URL and return the floating point duration when successful, [NO URL PROVIDED] when no URL/Path is provided and [ERROR FETCHING DURATION] when there is an error.

$youtubeVideoDuration takes a URL (eg. https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ) or ID (dQw4w9WgXcQ) and returns the duration as an integer. When no ID or URL is provided, [NO VIDEO ID PROVIDED] is returned. [ERROR FETCHING DURATION] is returned if there's an error.

frontendCommunicator.fireEventAsync("getVideoDuration", path: string);

• On success: returns number (seconds duration)
• On error: returns {error: string, path: string}

frontendCommunicator.fireEventAsync("getYoutubeVideoDuration", id: string);

• On success: returns number (seconds duration)
• On error: returns {code: number, error: string, youtubeId: string}

Applicable Issues

#2058

Testing

Extensive testing has been done with both the variables and changes to the play video effect.

Variables

Relative paths will always cause error messages. Absolute paths are detected properly.
URLs require http:// or https:// to be prepended at all times.

Play Video Effect

The play video effect doesn't deadlock anymore if the requested overlay is not available. In addition, Youtube now works with shorts as well as regular videos. This has been tested extensively over many different video files and youtube links, including long/large video files that used to break before.