GraphQL asset interface does not expose mp4/video dimensions

[riccardolardi]

Description

Is there any chance to implement this in near future and in the meantime is there any workaround to retrieve mp4/video dimensions in any other way?
I'm working on a masonry frontend which consists of images and videos where every asset can have different dimensions. Currently I can't seem to get dimensions data on the mp4 video assets through GraphQL (width and height fields return null).

[andris-sevcenko]

That's not a GraphQL limitation, though, as Craft doesn't have the capability to figure out the dimensions for a video file, yet.

If the values are in the assets table, they will get returned, so a possible solution is to populate those fields manually in the database.

[nodoxi]

@andris-sevcenko
it's GraphQL limitation.
I edited assets table and added width and height to mp4/video asset and still getting null in GraphQL.

GraphQL

[andris-sevcenko]

Right, you would get the same result in a Twig template, so it's a Craft limitation, not GraphQL.

Currently, Craft doesn't return dimensions for anything that is not an image (contrary to what I wrote before, apologies for that mistake).

There are some caveats to navigate - we'll talk this over internally and see if we can safely just return whatever is stored in the database.

[andris-sevcenko]

Just added this for the next Craft 3.7 release (7389067).

[brandonkelly]

Craft 3.7.21 is out now with that change.