Commands tagged video

Requires mencoder.

We take the first 50 frames of a.mp4 for track a, and 24 blank frames followed by b.mp4 for track b. We then create a transition from track a to track b starting from frame 25 and ending at frame 49.

The output is stored in out.mp4

To view the results without saving remove "-consumer avformat:out.mp4" from the end.

Documentation of the mlt framework and the melt command can be found here: http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/Documentation

Replace vid.mp4 with the path to your original video file, and out.mp4 to the path where you want to save the new file.

To view the output first before saving, remove "-consumer avformat:out.mp4" from the end.

Documentation for mlt framework and melt command can be found here:

http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/Documentation

-i sets the source file

-r sets the output frame rate, set it to the same frame rate as the input to output each frame

-f sets the output format, trough it might be guessed by the extension

Errors in output don't matter. Stop recording: ctrl-c. Result playable with Flash too.

IMPORTANT: Find a Pulse Audio device to capture from: pactl list | grep -A2 'Source #' | grep 'Name: ' | cut -d" " -f2

Improvement on Coderjoe's Solution. Gets rid of grep and cut (and implements them in awk) and specifies some different mplayer options that speed things up a bit.

A simple command to extract audio from flv/mp4 video file.

Just change extentions...

Better awk example, using only mplayer, grep, cut, and awk.

thumbnail gallery of video using totem

Faster thumbnail creation than '-itsoffset'

Videos are found using their MIME type. Thus no need to for an extension for the video file.

This is a efficent version of "jnash" cmd (4086). Thanks for jnash. This cmd will only show video files while his cmd show files having "video" anywhere in path.

The above one liner can be used to determine what card/driver is Xorg currently using. For additional information, see http://goo.gl/mDnWu

Gets all videos in your boxee queue with a URL associated with them and attempts to download each using get_flash_videos

Do you have a large library of flv's you have picked up over the years using FlashGot Firefox plugin?

Do you want to be able to convert them to Ogg Theora (video) at once?

Try out this script...

Is a simple script for video streaming a movie

Creates a 5 minute flv file, with the given sequence of images and audio with 0.5 fps.

The images were created using the following command:

for x in `seq 0 300`; do cp ../head.PNG head-`printf '%03d' $x`.png; done

You can also inject metadata to seek easier using yamdi as follows:

yamdi -i muxed.flv -o video.flv

i have a large video file, 500+ MB, so i cant upload it to flickr, so to reduce the size i split it into 2 files. the command shows the splitting for the first file, from 0-4 minutes. ss is start time and t is duration (how long you want the output file to be).

credit goes to philc: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=480343

NOTE: when i made the second half of the video, i got a *lot* of lines like this:

frame= 0 fps= 0 q=0.0 size= 0kB time=10000000000.00 bitrate= 0.0kbit

just be patient, it is working =)

Streaming HTML5 compatible video (Ogg Theora video with Vorbis sound) to an Icecast server using dvgrab, ffmpeg2theora and oggfwd.

In this example I'm merging stereo sound to mono (-c 1), saving the original dv for later higher quality on-demand video (tee dvstream.dv), saving the theora stream for immediate on-demand video, and publishing the stream in Xiph's stream directory (-p and the name and description).

The URL of the video will be (depending on your server) http://my.icecastserver.com/stream.ogv which will play in newer Firefox, Chrome and Opera web browsers. Cortado (a Java player) can easily be used for IE.

Note also that I'm using port 80, which is not the default port for Icecast, this is to avoid restrictive firewalls.

Also note that ffmpeg2theora 0.25 and will heed the bitrates much better than former versions because of using libtheora 1.1 or newer.

ffmpeg

-i = input file name

-s = set frame size, qcif=176x144

-vcodec = force video codec

-r = frame-rate [default = 25]

-b = bit-rate [200 kb/s]

-acodec = force audio codec

-ab = audio bitrate in bits/s [64k]

-ac = no. of audio channels [1]

-ar = audio sampling frequency [44100 Hz]

optional:

-sameq = use same video quality as source (implies VBR)

-f = force format

-y = overwrite output files

This command will transcode a MythTV recording. The target device is a Google Nexus One mobile phone. My recordings are from a HDHomerun with Over The Air content. Plays back nicely on the N1.

Takes two input video files and an external audio track and encodes them together to an MPEG-4 DivX output video file with the correct size ready for uploading.

Reencodes to MPEG-4 DivX output video file from step 1. Audio stream is simply copied. Resizes to 320x240 and deinterlaces as needed. A heading subtitle file is applied as watermark. This heading subtitle file can be a URL.

Rips DVD to lossless encoded video file. Reencodes audio to CBR MP3 for correct audio to video syncing. Be sure to have enough free disk space.