Posts Tagged ‘vlc’

Trim video with VLC on mac

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

Here’s a snippet to use VLC.app to trim a movie. Times are given in seconds.


/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC --start-time 170 --stop-time 310 --sout=#file{dst=out.mkv} --no-sout-rtp-sap --no-sout-standard-sap --sout-keep  "in.mkv"

For some reason this is very quick but doesn’t exit on its own.

New robot iPhone outgoing message using say

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Here’s the command I used to generate my new custom outgoing message for my iPhone’s voicemail:


say -o outgoing-message.aiff -v Vicki ". . . Ahlec Jacobson \
did not answer. Please try emailing him, at alec jacobson at \
gee mail dot com. That's A. . L. . E. . C. . J. . A. . C. . O. . B. . \
S. . O. . N. . AT. GEE MAIL. DOT. COM. Or send a text message \
to this number. Or finally leave a message after the beep. \
Thank you. . . . . . . .  . Good bye. . . ."

Here’s the result after I used lame to convert the aiff file to mp3 using this simple command:


lame outgoing-message.aiff outgoing-message.mp3


Download mp3

I used this professional setup to record the mp3 onto my iPhone (after some cleanup with audacity and voluming boosting in vlc):

record outgoing message on iphone from headphones 01


record outgoing message on iphone from headphones 02