Archive for May, 2010
video #2
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010Extract clip from video and convert to a bunch of formats
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010I’ve been interested in using video for everybody for which you need a .mp4, .ogv and .flv version of your video.
To suck out this clip of Cary Grant from Notorious I used mencoder with the following command:
mencoder -endpos 00:00:01.38 -ss 00:05:35 -of lavf -oac mp3lame -lameopts abr:br=56 -srate 22050 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=flv:vbitrate=500:mbd=2:mv0:trell:v4mv:cbp:last_pred=3 notorious.1946.x264.mkv -o cary-grant-eyes.flv
That makes a .flv file of a clip from this movie starting at 5m35 seconds and lasting 1.38 seconds.
To convert this to a quicktime compatible .mp4 file I use the following ffmpeg command:
ffmpeg -i cary-grant-eyes.flv -vcodec libx264 -vpre libx264-lossless_max cary-grant-eyes.mp4
Finally to convert that .mp4 file to a firefox compatibly .ogv file I use the following ffmpeg2theora command:
ffmpeg2theora cary-grant-eyes.mp4 -o cary-grant-eyes.ogv
Note: It really seems like I should be able to do each of these straight from mencoder but I couldn’t figure out how.
spain
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
Extract mp3 audio from flv flash video
Thursday, May 20th, 2010Found this resource about using mplayer or ffmpeg to extract the audio of an flv flash movie (like those from youtube etc.) and save it as an mp3 file.
I adapted the ffmpeg version with the -ab flag that allows me to specify audio bitrate:
ffmpeg -i input.flv -f mp3 -ab 192 -vn ouputfile.mp3
Change the 192 to whatever bitrate you want.
video #1
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010means nearness
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Fourteen new poems:
Means Nearness by Alec Jacobson (PDF).
Download all files of certain extension from website using wget
Monday, May 17th, 2010Issue this command in a terminal to download all mp3s linked to on a page using wget
wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off [url of website]
OR if you want to download all linked mp3s from multiple pages then make a text file containing each url on a separate line, then issue:
wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -i ~/mp3blogs.txt
If the site is behind basic http authentication you can use something like:
wget --http-user [username] --http-passwd [passwd] -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off "[url]"
Things
Monday, May 17th, 2010Eleven new poems:
Things by Alec Jacobson (PDF).
