Questions tagged [linux]
Questions specific to linux environment
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How to get FFMPEG to join non-sequential image files? (skip by 3s)
I have a bunch of images, that follow this pattern.
0001.png
0004.png
0007.png
0010.png
0013.png
0016.png
0019.png
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They're in the correct order, but FFMPEG ignores anything after the first file, ...
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How to encode Apple ProRes on Windows or Linux?
Is it also possible to encode video with Apple ProRes on Windows and Linux?
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convert KAZAM video file to a file, playable in windows media player
I have some mp4 video files that are created by KAZAM in Linux. But I need to play those files on Microsoft Windows only by Windows Media Player (for example I can not install VLC media player). Also ...
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Forcing kdenlive to adapt its profile to the video clip
kdenlive starts with a profile for instance 1080*720/etc.
Then I import a video clip.
How to tell kdenlive to modify its profile to match the video clip?
Modifying the profile manually by copy/...
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What video codecs can provide "adaptive quality"?
Background:
I am trying to compress lossless bluray tracks to a more storage friendly size without a huge loss in quality.
What I've been doing thus far:
Exploring compression options with ffmpeg. ...
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120fps 720p footage with real time playback on Ubuntu? + editing?
I have a laptop with an i7 CPU, 1.73 GHz, 8GB RAM, Ubuntu 10.04 with an "ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series" graphics card. I have compiz enabled (which may be one of the culprits with the problem ...
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Sync separate audio to video+bad-camera-audio, free NLE recommendations
My use-case, in case the details help people understand what I'm looking for:
My brother needs some videos of him singing while playing the piano, to send in as an audition for a dinner theater. For ...
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Can you render Adobe Premiere or After Effects projects on Linux using a render manager?
I'm looking for a way to render Premiere or Edius projects on linux via command line.
As you may know, there are a lot of render managers like Deadline, Render Pal or Smedge in order to build a ...
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How can I create a LUT on Linux with free and open source software?
I use Linux for everything media production. I shoot RAW and process images with Darktable.
Now that I've started making videos too (4K ProRes), I need to apply a LUT to them in post. This requires ...
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Video transitions and filters - how to create custom ones?
I am wondering if there is a possibility to do custom video transitions or filters. Like the video spiraling out, little squares appearing, circling out or something like that. Wiping the video out ...
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RTSP to RTMP converting fails after specific time only when IP camera enters night mode
I have bought a cheap IP camera Escam QF002 producing output in RTSP.
I'd like to secure it with RTMP or HLS stream served by nginx with nginx-rtmp-module.
For this I'd copy the video stream (h264) ...
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Adding metadata for films/TV shows on Linux
I am looking for an open-source solution for automatically pulling films/TV shows informations. I've found MetaX (Windows only) and Subler (MacOSX only) from a post here. Apparently metadata sources ...
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Video Capture using ffmpeg (V4L2 indev) Results in Bad A/V Sync
I actually contributed to a bug report on this issue a year and a half ago ( https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/692#comment:15 ). Basically, the problem is that using ffmpeg to record from a USB video ...
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GStreamer mpegtsmux produces empty output file
I'm trying to construct a GStreamer pipeline to transcode MPEG2 video and MPEG1 audio in a MPEGTS container to H.264 and AAC and output to a filesink.
The problem is: the output file is empty.
If I ...
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What is good software for camera recording under Linux?
I use Linux(Mint Linux Petra) and will probably switch to Ubuntu 14 soon.
I need to record video with my camera on my laptop(imagine I use a web-camera for simplification) and I need to see real-time ...
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What is good software for video editing under Linux?
I plan to create some homemade video lectures and I am under Linux. Is there comfortable open-source tool that has the following abilities:
to clear noise
to have a few sound channels
to allow adding ...
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Add semi-transparent box around subtitle
Hey guys how can I add box around subtitle like on picture with ffmpeg
here is mi current command
ffmpeg -i movie.mkv -strict -2 -vf "subtitles=subtitle.srt:force_style='FontName=ubuntu,fontsize=30',...
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Nvenc produces corrupted video
Someone knows how to solve this?
Hardware:
DRIVER: 396.24
CPU: Ryzen 1700
GPU: Nvidia MSI 1050 TI
Settings
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Can't get audio and video speeds to play at original speeds
When I import audio and video from different sources into a project, I can't get them to play at the corrects speeds.
For example, if I play the video in vlc player, it plays fine, if I play the ...
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Post processing - image stabilisation
I own a Panasonic HC-V130. Recently I've read an article about image stabilisation in a computing magazine. Can this be achieved without a special camera?
I am using too much zoom to hold the camera ...
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video stabilisation of tripod-taken video with many fast moving objects
Is there a way - in Linux - to stabilize with respect to a certain edge or region in the video? My situation:
I have a video taken with a tripod (well, not exactly, the camera is suspended and ...
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Is Open-Source -film production possible with open-source tools?
Samuli -- of the Iron-Sky -film -- mentions (3.40 here) their used software:
adobe.com, Adobe Creative Suite 5
autodesk.com, Maya
newtek.com, Lightwave 3D 10
renderpal.com, RenderPal
thefoundry.co.uk,...
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"ffmpeg" set fontsize and font
Im trying to set font and font size but i can use only one of the filters not both here is mine command
ffmpeg -i movie.avi -strict -2 -vf subtitles=subtile.srt:force_style='FontName=ubuntu, ...
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Convert TTML Subtitles to STL or SRT in Linux
I want to convert a file with TTML subtitles preferably to STL, or to SRT (less preferred). I thought that I would be able to do it with ffmpeg but apparently they do not support it, because the TTML ...
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Audio/video sync software for Linux (preferably open source)
I'm looking for a program that can synchronize audio and video from separate files. PluralEyes does this. I'm looking for something that runs on Linux and preferably is open source.
I imagine a CLI ...
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Build linux render farm in order to render adobe premiere projects [duplicate]
I edit my videos on Adobe Premiere (or even Edius) and I want to build a linux based render farm for rendering my projects.
The concepts I've found in my research are 'render manager' and 'frame ...
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Linux - looking for a way to produce analog effects for video
I am looking for a way to make analog video effects like those:
You may want to turn the volume down a bit:
If there's no convinient way to do it i can head to ...
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Options to speed up Hobbyist Rendering?
How can I speed up hobbyist animation-rendering project? It would be cool to see things faster, I use tools such as Blender.
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DaVinci Resolve Python 3.6 not found
I'm trying to run some basic scripts on Linux (Debian), however no python can be found.
Both Python 2 and 3 are present on the system.
$ python -V
Python 2.7.18
$ python3 -V
Python 3.8.5
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DaVinci Resolve ignores MOV (QuickTime) metadata
When importing MOV files on Linux, DaVinci Resolve seems to use only modification date from filesystem, but completely ignores metadata from movie file:
Using e.g. exiftool we can fetch date ...
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How to create a rolling ball with Python in Blender?
My friend told me that you could create games in blender and it has an game engine in it. Now I want to do some simple things with blender such as rolling ball, the topic now in this question.
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Is it possible to embed a thumbnail in a .mkv file?
I am trying to embed a thumbnail in a .mkv file with h265 video encoding using ffmpeg from the Linux command line. I am able to embed thumbnails in h264-encoded .mp4 files using the following command:
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Whats the smoothest way to screen record with FFMPEG with accurate colors?
ffmpeg -f x11grab -framerate 60 -probesize 42M -i $DISPLAY -preset ultrafast -pix_fmt yuv420p vid.mp4
I use this currently and the video recording is smooth but colors are not accurate, they are ...
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Combining two video fields into one (to create an interlaced video)
I have two separate video fields (top.avi and bottom.avi) and I would like to merge them to create an interlaced video.
Is it possible to do this with ffmpeg? (or any other tool for Windows or Linux)
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Is there an app that can automatically separate scenes/clips from a video file and export them?
I am looking to parse a collection downloaded YouTube videos that are actually compilations containing clips from several different videos all over the web. I would like for this program to ...
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How to get a crisp, exact color match for lossless screen-cast?
Background
Recording a screen-cast (no audio) in Xubuntu Linux. The following image shows a side-by-side comparison of the video (left) versus the desktop (right):
The screen-cast is recorded using:
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Kdenlive Render Effects
I'm using Kdenlive on Linux Mint 16, and I was finding that my keyframed "Box Blur" effect was significantly slowing down playback, and so I thought there might be a way to render the effects on a ...
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Is there a way to manage Final Cut project files under Linux or Windows?
I don't have a x86 Mac at hand I'm having trouble organising a large collection of Final Cut 7 projects.
I have tried to run Final Cut under Virtualized OS X. But I have trouble installing it since ...
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Use ffmpeg to stream rawvideo from a USB camera
I have a image sensor that streams 640x480 in RAW8 format. A USB controller is receiving this data, packing two pixels of 8-bits each and sending to USB as a 16-bits per pixel YUV422 format (this is ...
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FFMPEG conversion failed at random times on live stream to youtube
I am running a bash script using ubuntu server on arm64 that live streams video and audio to youtube, heres the script below
#! /bin/bash
VBR="8000k"
FPS="24"
QUAL="superfast&...
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Stabilize MP4 from gyroscope metadata? (Insta360)
I just got an Insta360 One R 1-inch sensor and the footage is shaky as hell. I realised that you need their desktop application to actually stabilise in post-production but since I'm on Linux this is ...
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Switching channels without cutting video into clips in kdenlive
I'm using KDEnlive to edit multiple videotracks. I have the tracks synched, but they are different lengths. In a preview of the video I can sort-of live edit by switching off different video-channels. ...
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Rendering edit on linux [closed]
I use Adobe Premiere for editing and rendering videos which is a windows based software and then I use ffmpeg for converting those video clips into different qualities.
As you may know rendering ...
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Export multiple clips from one video as separate files
I'm looking for video editing software with a GUI that will fit my needs.
I've downloaded the video of the public comments from our most recent local city council meeting. 17 people gave public ...
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Crop selected area in all videos
I have many videos in a folder which I want to crop in same way.
I want to remove 25px from the bottom part of all frames of all videos. All the videos are 1280x720p and have same format which is mp4....
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How to convert video for viewing on Sony Ericsson C702?
I'd like to convert some of my videos for viewing them on Sony Ericsson C702 cell phone. But I couldn't find the right set of parameters (a/v codecs, container, etc.). I'd prefer a solution using ...
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ffmpeg log missing "dup" and "drop" key-value pairs
For some reason, my ffmpeg output log does not show dup and drop key-value pairs.
expect:
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frame=563 fps=138 q=23.0 size=13056kB time=00:00:09.42 bitrate=11346.8kbits/s dup=0 drop=0 speed= 2.3x
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ffmpeg cut same video to multiple pieces
For the project that I'm working on I have to cut some parts of same video with some subtitles. So I made a bash file that executes multiple ffmpeg commands like this.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale="...
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FFMPEG add resize to my comand
Hey guys how can I add scale/resize command to mine command, because where ever I place the "scale" command I got error
Here is mine
ffmpeg -i movie.mkv -strict -2 -vf "subtitles=subtitle.srt:...
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FFmpeg: maximum VHS quality?
I'm digitizing a number of VHS tapes into lossless video files using FFmpeg. How can I optimize my FFmpeg command further in order to come closer to the requested specs below, with the best possible ...
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