I know how to download a streaming movie with VLC but I have a problem. When it comes to a movie that comes in sequencial links like movie_part_1 , movie_part_2, etc, how can I download all of the parts and joint them together?
Thank you!
multiple mpg files can be combined into one output file using command line tool ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i "concat:input1.mpg|input2.mpg|input3.mpg" -c copy output.mpg
see details at https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate
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I am using Lubuntu linux 18.04LTS, VLC 3.0.8 trying to record via vlc a video stream from a security camera and so far have not had success. I tried using the GUI "Convert" but despite choosing mp4, it seems to only play back as an mp3. Then I thought the command line might work, but I haven't found a clear tutorial in how to set up the right parameters. The closest I've gotten is this, which is:
vlc -vvv rtsp://#192.168.0.xyz:XXXX/videofeed --sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mpga,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100,scodec=none}:file{mux=mp4,dst=/media/my/external/hard/disk/yard-01.mp4,no-overwrite}" :no-sout-all :sout-keep
The problem is the file created is not usable/readable. Using Gnome MPV player, I get "Format not recognized." And it doesn't play. Xine seems to play it, but treat it as a silent audio file (guessing at that). When I look at the command line messages, I get a long scroll of "mp4 mux warning: i_length <= 0" which, I am guessing, cannot be good.
I'm the first to admit I don't know much about the options in that line above...just cut them from other folks' posts who said they got this to work. Is there something I can tweak above to make it record video properly? It doesn't have to be mp4, just something decent that will allow me to get a good feed for security purposes.
I should add that the streaming part works fine in VLC. I have a nice feed whenever I want via live streaming. So I know the hardware and access part is fine. It's just the transcoding that I think is going awry.
Any and all help greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
i want to ask if there is any option to just merge multiple fragments downloaded from HBO GO app and mux it to some normal format like mkv or mp4??? Because these fragments has no file type. Some script, program, guide ??? It looks like this
for video: Fragments(video=0), Fragments(video=10000000), Fragments(video=20000000), Fragments(video=30000000), Fragments(video=40000000), Fragments(video=50000000)
...for audio Fragments(audio_eng_st_dub=0), Fragments(audio_eng_st_dub=20201361), Fragments(audio_eng_st_dub=40402721), Fragments(audio_eng_st_dub=60604082)
...for text is simillar.
youtube-dl doesnt support HBO GO direct download so if anybody can help me with it ???
Thank you
They are probably fragmented mp4, You can just concat them with the init fragment and many players can play it.
However HBO use DRM, so you will never be able to play these files.
I am trying to add text to video using ffmpeg and wants text to appear for a given period of time. I am trying to use DrawText filter but don't know how to provide time period for this filter. Can Anybody please help me.
Thanks
The drawtext video filter has timeline editing support (see the output of ffmpeg -filters). This can evaluate an expression and allows you to provide the time(s) of when the filter should be enabled.
This example will enable the filter from 12 seconds to 3 minutes:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "drawtext=enable='between(t,12,3*60)':fontfile=/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSerif.ttf: text='Test Text'" -acodec copy output.mp4
The audio was stream copied in this example.
If you do not have timeline editing support then you will need to get a newer version. You can simply download a Linux build of ffmpeg or follow a step-by-step guide to compile ffmpeg.
Also see the FFmpeg and x264 Encoding Guide.
I want to compile several video clips using Avisynth on a server. I generate the .avs file and let VirtualDubMod read the file.
How do I save the video read from VirtualDubMod to an avi file using the command line only? If I open VirtualDubMod then I can choose save as but I am putting this on a server so no GUI will be available and it should be automatic.
EDIT:
After looking some more I found this. Is this a recommended approach?
I would like to create a quicktime movie from a sequence of still frames via perl. It seems like there should be a relatively simple way to do this, but so far I have not found it. Things I've tried:
Reading the Quicktime file spec and creating the movie file from scratch. This low level approach has worked well for me in the past with TIFF and PDF file formats, but Quicktime seems dauntingly complicated.
Looking at the various quicktime-related perl modules. So far I haven't found one that lets me do what I want (images --> movie) with a minimum of fuss.
Using Applescript and Quicktime Player. This would probably work if I paid for Quicktime Pro, but I'd prefer not to do that.
I'm interested in any suggestions (even non-perl-based ones) for a relatively simple way to assemble a sequence of images into a quicktime movie.
Video encoding isn't really an ideal job for perl -- there are a lot of pieces to put together. I would suggest just using mencoder -- you can use an input of e.g. -mf type=png:fps=30 mf://frame*.png, and an output format of e.g. -of lavf -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=libx264 -o whatever.mov. If you want to dub in audio you can use -audiofile whatever.mp3, and then either -acodec copy if you want it to be MP3 in the movie as well, or perhaps -acodec faac (and -faacopts) if the audio format in the movie needs to be AAC. There are lots of different options to tweak and things to learn but it's pretty much the ideal tool for the job. FFmpeg is nicer to use in a lot of ways, but it doesn't have the mf:// input mode, which makes assembling a video from frames a lot more painful.