# Audio/video file read **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [October 7, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871 "2009-10-07T10:25:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 10:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871/1 "2009-10-07T10:25:24Z")
Hi All, I want to read an audio/video file using rails. please suggest me how can i achieve it!! Thanks, Saurabh ---
**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 11:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871/2 "2009-10-07T11:09:36Z")
On Oct 7, 9:25 am, Saurabh P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to read an audio/video file using rails. > > please suggest me how can i achieve it!! Well at a basic level File.read will read the bytes from any file, but I rather suspect that isn’t the answer you are looking for. What do you want to do with these files ? Fred ---
**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 11:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871/3 "2009-10-07T11:19:43Z")
Frederick C. wrote: > On Oct 7, 9:25�am, Saurabh P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I want to read an audio/video file using rails. > > > > please suggest me how can i achieve it!! > > Well at a basic level File.read will read the bytes from any file, but > I rather suspect that isn’t the answer you are looking for. What do > you want to do with these files ? > > Fred Hi Fred, I want to read the file size, it’s duration, dimensions, codec and other such properties. Thanks Saurabh ---
**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871/4 "2009-10-07T12:14:51Z")
Leonardo M. wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Saurabh P. > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > > > > What have you found/tried so far? > > – > Leonardo M… > There’s no place like ~ I use the File class, which had given me time(@file.atime) and size(@file.size) but not getting the audio/video properties(e.g duration, sampling rate… ) as such. Thanks Saurabh ---
**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 11:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871/5 "2009-10-07T11:48:50Z")
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Saurabh P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > What have you found/tried so far? – Leonardo M… There’s no place like ~ ---
**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871/6 "2009-10-07T12:27:54Z")
Checkout this links [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-audiofile/](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-audiofile/) > **[ruby-audiofile](https://ruby-audiofile.sourceforge.net/)** > > ruby-audiofile is a binding of the audiofile library to Ruby, which lets you read and write files containing sound from your Ruby scripts. I think this will help u… Thanks Brijesh S. ---
**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871/7 "2009-10-07T17:58:40Z")
No I don’t have ne idea abt this…I found these links by googling. ---
**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871/8 "2009-10-07T15:15:27Z")
Brijesh S. wrote: > Checkout this links > > [http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-audiofile/](http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-audiofile/) > [http://ruby-audiofile.sourceforge.net/](http://ruby-audiofile.sourceforge.net/) > > I think this will help u… > > Thanks > Brijesh S. Hi Brijesh Thanks for the links I had gone through them, but ruby extconf.rb is throwing an error, do you have any idea about this: checking for afOpenFile() in -laudiofile… no \*\*\* ERROR: need to have all of this to compile this module \*\*\* extconf.rb failed \*\*\* Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: –with-opt-dir –without-opt-dir –with-opt-include –without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include –with-opt-lib –without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib –with-make-prog –without-make-prog –srcdir=. –curdir –ruby=/usr/bin/ruby –with-audiofile-dir –without-audiofile-dir –with-audiofile-include –without-audiofile-include=${audiofile-dir}/include –with-audiofile-lib –without-audiofile-lib=${audiofile-dir}/lib –with-audiofilelib –without-audiofilelib thanks, Saurabh ---
**Author:** ![saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@saurabhpurnaye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/saurabhpurnaye)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/audio-video-file-read/176871/9 "2009-10-07T18:41:36Z")
You’re missing the audiofile-dev on your linux distribution… is it installed, and is it ruby-dev installed too? On Oct 7, 10:15 am, Saurabh P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)