Support uploads of videos with unknown duration

diff --git a/server/middlewares/validators/videos/videos.ts b/server/middlewares/validators/videos/videos.ts
index 26597cf7b7865662b3a73b9fc5671a24230f9c59..0b6b8bfe51b1d1f1c0015c728b62845c503a7090 100644 (file)
--- a/server/middlewares/validators/videos/videos.ts
+++ b/server/middlewares/validators/videos/videos.ts
@@ -646,9 +646,10 @@ export async function isVideoAccepted (
 }
 
 async function addDurationToVideo (videoFile: { path: string, duration?: number }) {
-  const duration: number = await getVideoStreamDuration(videoFile.path)
+  const duration = await getVideoStreamDuration(videoFile.path)
 
-  if (isNaN(duration)) throw new Error(`Couldn't get video duration`)
-
-  videoFile.duration = duration
+  // FFmpeg may not be able to guess video duration
+  // For example with m2v files: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/9726#comment:2
+  if (isNaN(duration)) videoFile.duration = 0
+  else videoFile.duration = duration
 }