Video file validation in django

Question

First we upload the video file and try to convert in .flv video file if convert the video file in .flv file then no problem and if not able to convert in .flv file then show messages like this video format is not supported..bcz some video file not converted in .flv like(swf)

Answer 1

You can integrate with the ExifTool library, as it extracts metadata from audio/video/image files, and it can report you the file type.

According to the docs you can even check other informations such as type of codec: http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/TagNames/Flash.html

Answer 2

Try ffmpeg