Soli Deo Gloria (To God Be The Glory)

I have created this library just for the fun of it.

I once was mere a troubled young man fighting my way through the life. I filled up a hole in my heart with drugs and long working hours. Never did I realize that the secret longing in my heart was that of God's. I have got saved some years ago by the Lord Jesus Christ, and He has placed my feet on a solid ground and given me hope and support when I needed that the most. He is now the foundation I can build my life on without worrying it will ever break down.

I want to share this with you as without Him I would not be here coding anything and hence I want to give Him the thanks and glory of what I do. I most heartily hope you will enjoy the library as much as I have enjoyed coding it! -Sven Vollbehr

Abstract

PHP Reader is a well documented small library written in PHP to read and write media files and their information headers in an object-oriented manner. Currently supported formats are ASF (Windows Media Player files, ie WMA, WMV, etc), ID3, including both ID3v1 and ID3v2 (MPEG files, ie MP3), MPEG Audio Bit Stream (ie ABS, MP1, MP2, MP3), MPEG Program Stream (MPEG movies, and DVD and HD DVD video discs, ie MPG, MPEG, VOB, EVO), and ISO Base Media File Format (eg QuickTime, MPEG-4 and iTunes AAC files, ie QT, MOV, MP4, M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V, etc).

From Ohloh:

Across all PHP projects on Ohloh, 31% of all source code lines are comments. For PHP Reader, this figure is 62%.

This very impressive number of comments puts PHP Reader among the best 10% of all PHP projects on Ohloh.

A high number of comments might indicate that the code is well-documented and organized, and could be a sign of a helpful and disciplined development team.

News

26.01.2012 RIFF read support added to the trunk! See issue 37 for more.

11.06.2011 Ogg Vorbis I and FLAC read support added to the trunk! See issue 13 for more.

04.05.2011 I am pleased to announce a new version of PHP Reader 1.8.1, featuring

Critical fixes to ID3v2 unsynchronization handling (affects mostly tags with APIC frame). Please read the additional notes on compatibility from the ID3v2 wiki page!

01.03.2011 I am pleased to announce that the project has got over 10 000 downloads!

30.09.2010 I've been extremely busy lately so I haven't had the time to do the preparations for Zend Framework. Any help is appreciated!! Let me know if you have the time!

12.08.2010 Great news! PHP Reader has been accepted for immediate development in the Zend Framework incubator

Any help in the process is appreciated!

04.08.2010 PHP Reader has received Zend Community Review Team Recommendation, and will target the 1.11 release of Zend Framework

07.03.2010 I am pleased to announce a new version of PHP Reader 1.8, featuring

Zend Framework name spaces, or mostly Zend_Io, and Zend_Media as described in respective Zend Framework proposals
complete rewrite of ISO14496-12 write support
and a lot of smaller fixes and features!

04.02.2010 I am pleased to announce that the project has got well over 8000 downloads!

12.07.2009 I am pleased to announce that the project has got over 6000 downloads!

Features

The table below lists the features found currently in the latest release. All the classes can also be used separately from each others. See the corresponding links to check the minimum set of required files.

Vorbis Comments in both Vorbis I (Ogg stream) and FLAC

Class	Standard	Compliance	Read support	Write support	Supported file extensions
Zend_Media_Asf	Advanced Systems Format (ASF)	Full implementation			ASF, WMA, WMV
Zend_Media_Flac	Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)		In the trunk!	Coming soon(ner or later)	FLAC
Zend_Media_Id3v1	ID3v1.0, ID3v1.1	Full implementation			MP3
Zend_Media_Id3v2	ID3v2.3.0, ID3v2.4.0	Full implementation			MP3
Zend_Media_Iso14496	ISO Base Media File Format, or ISO/IEC 14496-12	Full implementation			3GP, 3GPP, AVC, DCF, M21, M4A, M4B, M4P, M4V, MAF, MJ2, MJP, MOV, MP4, ODF, SDV, QT
	Apple iTunes extension to ISO/IEC 14496 to support storing of file information (ILST)	Additions to the Base Media Format
	Nero extension to ISO/IEC 14496 to support storing of file information (NDRM, CHPL)	Additions to the Base Media Format
	ID3v2 extension to ISO/IEC 14496 to support storing of file information (ID32)	Additions to the Base Media Format
	MP4 File Format or ISO/IEC 14496-14 as derived from ISO/IEC 14496-12 and ISO/IEC 15444-12, the ISO Base Media File Format	Additions to the Base Media Format	No¹	No¹	MP4
	Advanced Video Coding (AVC) streams in file formats derived from ISO/IEC 14496-12 and ISO/IEC 15444-12, the ISO Base Media File Format	Additions to the Base Media Format	No¹	No¹	MP4
	Any other file format derived from ISO/IEC 14496-12 and ISO/IEC 15444-12, the ISO Base Media File Format	Additions to the Base Media Format	No¹	No¹
Zend_Mime_Magic	Mime Magic	Full implementation		N/A	magic, magic.mime
Zend_Media_Mpeg_Abs	MPEG Audio Bit Stream (ISO/IEC 11172-3, ISO/IEC 13818-3)	Full implementation		No	ABS, MP1, MP2, MP3
Zend_Media_Mpeg_Ps	MPEG Program Stream (ISO/IEC 11172-1, ISO/IEC 13818-1)	Partial implementation	Play duration	No	MPG, MPEG, VOB, EVO
Zend_Media_Ogg_Reader	Ogg container format reader	Full implementation	In the trunk!	Coming soon(ner or later)	OGG, OGA, OGV, SPX
Zend_Media_Vorbis (Vote full implementation by starring issue 13)	Vorbis I		In the trunk!	Coming soon(ner or later)	OGG, OGA, OGV, SPX
Vote implementation by starring issue 18	Exchangeable image file format, or EXIF		Coming soon(ner or later)	Coming soon(ner or later)	JPEG, TIFF, RIFF
Vote implementation by starring issue 36	Flash Video (FLV 1/4, F4V)		Coming soon(ner or later)	Coming soon(ner or later)	FLV, F4V, F4P, F4A, F4B
Zend_Media_Riff Vote implementation by starring issue 37	Resource Interchange File Format, or RIFF		In the trunk!	Coming soon(ner or later)	RIFF
	ID3v2 extension to RIFF	Additions to the RIFF formats	In the trunk!	Coming soon(ner or later)
	Waveform Audio File Format, or WAVE extension	Additions to the RIFF formats	Coming soon(ner or later)	Coming soon(ner or later)	WAV
	Broadcast WAV extension	Additions to the RIFF formats	Coming soon(ner or later)	Coming soon(ner or later)	BWAV

¹Implementing additions to ISO/IEC 14496-12 or the Base Media File Format such as MP4, AVC, or other require a commercial specification. If you need support for them you can help the project by buying a copy of them for project's use.

In the distribution there are also couple of general purpose classes used by the above classes to carry out read and write operations on binary files and bit twiddling.

Class	Description
Zend_Io_Reader	Provides with facilities to read PHP primitive types from a binary file.
Zend_Io_Writer	Provides with facilities to write PHP primitive types to a binary file.
Zend_Bit_Twiddling	Provides with a class with methods for various bit twiddling purposes.

If you have found the library useful and are using it on your site, you can now show that to the world.

If you need a PHP class to read file information from a format other than what is provided here, please do contact me and I will see what I can do for you. You may post comments and feature requests to the issue tracker or the forum.

If you have passion to code, and would like to share your code to the world, you are always welcome to join the project! -Sven Vollbehr

Soli Deo Gloria (To God Be The Glory)

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