Video duration Property

Example

Get the length of a video:

var x = document.getElementById("myVideo").duration;

Description

The duration property returns the length of a video, in seconds.

Note: Different browsers return different values. In the example above, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome returns "12.612". Safari returns "12.612000465393066", Opera 12 returns "12.585215419", while Opera 18 returns "12.62069".

Note: This property is read-only.

Browser Support

Property
duration	Yes	9.0	Yes	Yes	Yes

Syntax

videoObject.duration

Technical Details

Return Value:	A Number, representing the length of the video, in seconds. If no video is set, "NaN" (Not-a-Number) is returned. If the video is streamed and has no predefined length, "Inf" (Infinity) is returned.

❮ Video Object