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Commands tagged video

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mencoder -ovc copy -oac copy -of avi -o remuxed.avi original.avi
2009-03-23 10:15:36
User: iain
Tags: video mencoder video editing avi
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Remux an avi video if it won't play easily on your media device

When playback of AVI files (containing a video format like XviD or DivX) is stuttering, it in 90% of the files is caused by a poorly or wrongly interleaved file. The issue can be permanently resolved by RE-MUXING the AVI video-files that have this problem

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ffmpeg -vcodec copy -acodec copy -i orginalfile -ss 00:01:30 -t 0:0:20 newfile
2009-03-16 12:58:07
User: ako
Tags: video ffmpeg video editing codec
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Cut out a piece of film from a file. Choose an arbitrary length and starting time.

With:

-vcodec, you choose what video codec the new file should be encoded with. Run ffmpeg -formats E to list all available video and audio encoders and file formats.

copy, you choose the video encoder that just copies the file.

-acodec, you choose what audio codec the new file should be encoded with.

copy, you choose the audio encoder that just copies the file.

-i originalfile, you provide the filename of the original file to ffmpeg

-ss 00:01:30, you choose the starting time on the original file in this case 1 min and 30 seconds into the film

-t 0:0:20, you choose the length of the new film

newfile, you choose the name of the file created.

Here is more information of how to use ffmpeg:

http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html

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mencoder -vf rotate=1 -ovc lavc -oac copy "$1" -o "$1"-rot.avi
2009-03-04 07:46:37
User: pluc
Tags: video mencoder media
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Rotate a video file by 90 degrees CW
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mencoder "$1" -ofps 23.976 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o "$1".avi
2009-03-04 07:45:06
User: pluc
Tags: video mencoder media
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Convert video files to XviD
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mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile "yourfile" -playlist "URL"
2009-02-28 22:18:17
User: Alanceil
Tags: video mplayer stream rip
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Use mplayer to save video streams to a file

I use this command to save RTSP video streams over night from one of our national TV stations, so I won't have to squeeze the data through my slow internet connection when I want to watch it the next day.

For ease of use, you might want to put this in a file:

#!/bin/bash

FILE="`basename \"$1\"`"

mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile "$FILE" -playlist "$1"

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function encode4phone() { ffmpeg -acodec libamr_nb -vcodec h263 -i "$1" -s qcif -b 200k -ac 1 -ab 7.4k -ar 8000 "$1.3gp" }
2009-02-21 20:39:35
User: TheBunman
Tags: video
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watch porn on older mobile phones

works like a charm for the K610i

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