fix(server): video duration extraction #11610
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Extracting the video duration based on EXIF data has proven to be unreliable. Exiftool has 7 different ways for calculating the
Duration
value, and if any of those are missing or invalid the duration will also be wrong. Usingffprobe
is a more reliable solution to determine the video duration.Using an MKV test file the duration is now correctly extracted as
00:01:27.336
, whereas it was previously24:15:36.000
. This should fix #7312 and fix #8244, though I can't verify that myself