How to properly trim out a section of video with ffmpeg This ffmpeg command will trim out a section of video from a long video file. This is how a clip is snipped out of a movie file easily. ffmpeg -i "baraka.mkv" -ss 00:14:59.691 -to 00:17:24.044 -c:v libx264 -preset veryslow -crf 0 -c:a copy "BarakaClip.mkv"ffmpeg … Read more
Rip a Youtube video to a wav file very easily. This is a great way to get an audio copy of a Youtube vid to save to your music collection. Very useful way to get copies of quality music from the Internet and create a collection of music for free. Youtube-dl is the best way … Read more
This post will show how easy it is to rip the audio from a video file and save it to a wav file. This works very well and is a good way to make an OGG Vorbis file from a Youtube video the user has downloaded. Use this long command to rip the audio from … Read more
The Linux command line may be used to get information about a video file easily. Here is an example. Getting the video resolution with a simple command. jason@jason-desktop:~/Videos$ ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams burnout-in-a-town-street.mp4 | grep coded "coded_width": 400, "coded_height": 224,jason@jason-desktop:~/Videos$ ffprobe -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams burnout-in-a-town-street.mp4 | grep coded "coded_width": … Read more
Record your Linux desktop to a video file and showcase it on Youtube To get a simple desktop recording of your Linux desktop for teaching purposes or any other use, just follow this guide. This command below. will record a high-quality video file of your Linux desktop to an MKV file. It will automatically get … Read more
To create a video file from a wav, just use ffmpeg. This is how I created a 4k resolution video using just ffmpeg and an image file and audio wav I got off the Internet. Put both files into the same folder and then run this command. This will add two frames to the video, … Read more
There is the ability to open a Vimeo video with VLC, but Youtube URL`s can be opened with VLC as well. Paste the Youtube video URL into VLC allows the playback of this video in VLC. Then the video will open up in VLC. This is a great way to playback a Youtube video, I … Read more
Record your desktop to a video fileRecord your desktop with sound Record your desktop to a video file To record a good quality video of your Linux desktop, there are many ways to do this. The ffmpeg utility will be a natural choice for what we need. Run the command below to start recording a … Read more
This post will show how to rip the audio from a video file to a wav and then convert that to an ogg file. This is very simple and easy to do. This long command will rip the audio from the file and save it in the out.wav file. localhost% mplayer -ao pcm:fast:file=out.wav -vo null … Read more
To watch a Vimeo in VLC, we need to capture the actual video URL. Firstly, copy the video URL from the address bar. https://vimeo.com/3685071https://vimeo.com/3685071 Then paste this into the Open Network Stream option. After a short wait the video will open in VLC. This is how easy it is to play Vimeo without leaving a … Read more
This is how to create a nice webm using FFmpeg on Linux. Firstly, capture the section of the video you wish to be encoded as a webm. This command will strip out a section of video from 00:09:23 to 00:09:33 and save it in the same format as the existing file. jason@jason-desktop:~/Videos$ ffmpeg -i total.mkv … Read more
This music video features a Macintosh iMac PC with the Gnome Shell Linux interface. This is used as the main screen where the girl is typing on a notepad and then ripping the pages off the screen. This is an interesting place to see the Gnome Shell Linux desktop environment. You would have thought that … Read more
This is a very good introduction to the fundamental workings of a Voice Over IP system. This video, posted on YouTube, shows the basic functionality of VOIP. Voice Over IP is a system that lets you send video messages and make telephone calls, using voice over IP communications. As these applications work through the Internet, … Read more
How to use VLC on Linux to record a time lapse video easily.
How I recorded this video. avconv -f x11grab -r 60 -s 1920×1080 -i :0.0 -vcodec libvpx -b:v 1M output.webmavconv -f x11grab -r 60 -s 1920×1080 -i :0.0 -vcodec libvpx -b:v 1M output.webm Use this command to install avconv. sudo apt-get install libav-toolssudo apt-get install libav-tools This is a very good way to show off your … Read more
I had an Android phone hooked up to my router over WIFI and I could connect to it on my PC using the IP Camera app, therefore I wanted to try and record a timelapse video and this is how I did this. The command below was used to capture the time-lapse video to a … Read more