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Here's what worked for me:
ffmpeg -i animated.gif -movflags faststart -pix_fmt yuv420p -vf "scale=trunc(iw/2)*2:trunc(ih/2)*2" video.mp4
movflags – This option optimizes the structure of the MP4 file so the browser can load it as quickly as possible.
pix_fmt – MP4 videos store pixels in different formats. We include this option to specify a specific ...
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You can download videos and/or just the audio and then watch/listen to them using youtube-dl. The script is written in Python and makes use of ffmpeg I believe.
$ youtube-dl --help
Usage: youtube-dl [options] url [url...]
Options:
General Options:
-h, --help print this help text and exit
--version ...
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You mentioned wanting to reduce filesize to fit more videos on a mobile device, which is my usecase as well. All the answers here are for reducing the compression quality but nobody has mentioned reducing video frame size. It's a lot quicker, from about 3 to 5 times quicker than recompressing in my experience. See the ffmpeg docs on scaling for more info.
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OK then
I started ffcast, did vim, quit ffcast, then converted .avi→.gif.
I ran the recording commands in another terminal. Polished script for your $PATH at the end of this answer.
What happened?
Capturing
FFcast helps the user interactively select a screen region and hands over the geometry to an external command, such as FFmpeg, for screen ...
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I tested most of the other proposed answers to this question. The test data conclusions are below. These are the proposed answers that I tested:
(BR) Modify the bitrate, using:
ffmpeg -i $infile -b $bitrate $newoutfile
(CR) Vary the Constant Rate Factor, using:
ffmpeg -i $infile -vcodec libx264 -crf 23 $outfile
(SZ) Change the video screen-size (for ...
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I have no .ts here but this works for .mp4. Use ffprobe (part of ffmpeg) to get the time in seconds, e.g:
ffprobe -v quiet -of csv=p=0 -show_entries format=duration Inception.mp4
275.690000
so for all .mp4 files in the current dir:
find . -maxdepth 1 -iname '*.mp4' -exec ffprobe -v quiet -of csv=p=0 -show_entries format=duration {} \;
149.233333
130....
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From my own experience, if you want absolutely no loss in quality, --lossless is what you are looking for.
Not sure about avconv but the command you typed looks identical to what I do with FFmpeg. In FFmpeg you can pass the parameter like this:
ffmpeg -i INPUT.mkv -c:v libx265 -preset ultrafast -x265-params lossless=1 OUTPUT.mkv
Most x265 switches (...
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To be honest, using the accepted answer resulted in a lot of dropped frames for me.
However, using the hstack filter_complex produced perfectly fluid output:
ffmpeg -i left.mp4 -i right.mp4 -filter_complex hstack output.mp4
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ffmpeg \
-i input1.mp4 \
-i input2.mp4 \
-filter_complex '[0:v]pad=iw*2:ih[int];[int][1:v]overlay=W/2:0[vid]' \
-map [vid] \
-c:v libx264 \
-crf 23 \
-preset veryfast \
output.mp4
This essentially doubles the size of input1.mp4 by padding the right side with black the same size as the original video, and then places input2.mp4 over the top ...
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Unless you're looking for a specific bit rate, I'd recommend the -crf option.
This is most commonly used for x264 encoding as described in this article.
In short: a constant rate factor (CRF) of 23 would make a DVD quality movie (~700MB - 1GB) and lower CRF values would be higher quality (larger files).
An example from the linked article:
ffmpeg -i input....
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Note that it seems that ffmpeg already performs some optimization when ran without options, so before trying to use settings you don't understand or deciding to explicitly lose information, give a try to a default conversion :
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.mp4
In my case it reduced the bitrate of both the video and audio (you can check and compare the input ...
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In my case, using ffmpeg directly did the trick and provided the best result:
$ ffmpeg -f gif -i infile.gif outfile.mp4
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ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -acodec copy audio.aac
Here’s a short explanation on what every parameter does:
-i option specifies the input file.
-vn option is used to skip the video part.
-acodec copy will copy the audio stream keeping the original codec.
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On a Debian-based system (but presumably, other distributions will also have mediainfo in their repositories):
$ sudo apt-get install mediainfo
$ mediainfo foo.mp4
That will spew out a lot of information. To get, for example, the length, resolution, codec and dimensions use:
$ $ mediainfo "The Blues Brothers.mp4" | grep -E 'Duration|Format |Width|Height' ...
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Pull out the image captures (these are 100 pixels tall, and keep aspect ratio), the rate (-r) is per-second (this yields one frame every ~5 minutes), this also adds time stamp to output image.
ffmpeg -i MOVIE.mp4 -r 0.0033 -vf scale=-1:120 -vcodec png capture-%002d.png
Then use ImageMagick to build your gallery image:
montage -title "Movie Name\nSubtitle"...
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You can use exiftool. To install it run:
sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl
Then to get the metadata from mp4 file run:
exiftool video_file.mp4 > medatata.txt
The output saved in the file should be something like this:
ExifTool Version Number : 9.60
File Name : video_file.mp4
Directory : .
...
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Try with ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i inputfile.avi -r 1 -f image2 image-%3d.jpeg
You can read the documentation here
-i inputfile.avi The video input file is inputfile.avi
-r 1 extract 1 image per second of video. Replace that number for the number of images you want to get per second.
-f image2 force image output format, you may probable be able to omit this since ...
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This can be done with just two filters and the audio from both inputs will also be included.
ffmpeg -i left.mp4 -i right.mp4 -filter_complex \
"[0:v][1:v]hstack=inputs=2[v]; \
[0:a][1:a]amerge[a]" \
-map "[v]" -map "[a]" -ac 2 output.mp4
hstack will place each video side-by-side.
amerge will combine the audio from both inputs into a single, multichannel ...
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ffmpeg -i input.file -vf "scale=(iw*sar)*max(720/(iw*sar)\,480/ih):ih*max(720/(iw*sar)\,480/ih), crop=720:480" -c:v mpeg4 -vtag XVID -q:v 4 -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 4 output.avi
Replace "input.file" with the name of your input file.
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Simple script with good quality
Script:
inputFile=$1
FPS=15
WIDTH=320
#Generate palette for better quality
ffmpeg -i $inputFile -vf fps=$FPS,scale=$WIDTH:-1:flags=lanczos,palettegen tmp_palette.png
#Generate gif using palette
ffmpeg -i $inputFile -i tmp_palette.png -loop 0 -filter_complex "fps=$FPS,scale=$WIDTH:-1:flags=lanczos[x];[x][1:v]paletteuse" ...
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I'm no ffmpeg guru, but this should do the trick.
First of all, you can get the size of input video like this:
ffprobe -v error -of flat=s=_ -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=height,width in.mp4
With a reasonably recent ffmpeg, you can resize your video with these options:
ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -vf scale=720:480 out.mp4
You can set the width or height ...
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guvcview
This program is ideal for screencasts, as it can show just the camera on a window and nothing else:
sudo apt-get install guvcview
guvcview
Then just use any screen recorder to make a feed. recordmydesktop works fine.
Tested on Ubuntu 18.04.
Related questions:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/536563/screen-recorder-webcam
https://askubuntu.com/...
answered Dec 5 '16 at 23:33
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If you have a low bandwidth I recommend compression of the video stream (still works in 2020).
with ffmpeg and mplayer
ssh USERNAME@REMOTEHOST ffmpeg -an -f video4linux2 -s 640x480 -i /dev/video0 -r 10 -b:v 500k -f matroska - | mplayer - -idle -demuxer matroska
where
-an turns off audio encoding. If you want audio, replace -an with -f alsa -ac 1 -i hw:3 (...
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You can try and use Untrunc to fix the file.
Restore a damaged (truncated) mp4, m4v, mov, 3gp video. Provided you
have a similar not broken video.
you may need to compile it from source, but there is another option to use a Docker container and bind the folder with the file into the container and fix it that way.
You can use the included Dockerfile to ...
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For newer Debian & Ubuntu distros using nvidia, I had to do the following:
First, edit /etc/default/grub. Change the following line:
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
to this:
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep
replacing 1280x800 with the desired resolution.
Then:
echo "echo FRAMEBUFFER=y" | sudo tee /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash
sudo ...
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ddrescue
You can try ddrescue. I read recommendation for it, but I do not have experience.
There are two programs called ddrescue (see https://askubuntu.com/questions/211578/whats-the-difference-between-ddrescue-gddrescue-and-dd-rescue). Gnu ddrescue is the newer one and designed to overcome some of the problems in the older ddrescue.
Gnu ddrescue uses a ...
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So, with Terminology (probably the very best thing that ever happened to a terminal emulator, by the way) at the time of this writing the following works:
ytplay() (
init() if [ "${#1}" -gt 0 ] && i=$? du= f=
then durl \! \" \# \$ \% \& \' \( \) \* \
\+ \, \/ \: \; \= \? \@ \[ \]
: &...
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From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2553448:
Dump all video frames
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -an -qscale 1 %06d.jpg
Dump audio
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vn -ac 2 audio.wav
Reverse audio
$ sox -V audio.wav backwards.wav reverse
Cat video frames in reverse order to FFmpeg as input
$ cat $(ls -t *jpg) | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -vcodec mjpeg -r 25 -i - -i ...
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The second device provides metadata about the video data from the first device. The new devices were introduced by this patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=088ead25524583e2200aa99111bea2f66a86545a
More information on the V4L metadata interface can be found here:
https://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/...
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I like using an easy to use unix command line bash script called VCS - Video Contact Sheet. Their official page: http://p.outlyer.net/vcs/
Its a lot easier to use even easier than a GUI
''It is a bash script meant to create video contact sheets (previews) aka thumbnails or previews of videos. Any video supported by mplayer and ffmpeg can be used by this ...
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