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Read error while copying VOB files from DVD drive to hard disk

I have old DVDs containing personal (family) recordings. I want to copy the DVD files to PC, add menu and titles to these files using standard Video editor and share/stream video files. The windows ...
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FFmpeg on windows cut and fade question

so i am using the following code to in a windows .BAT file to cut up a video at X time: bin\ffmpeg -hide_banner -loglevel 0 -i "%video%" -c copy -map 0 -f segment -segment_time %...
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Play a .g64 file extension

A legal friend of mine received a file from a colleague with a .g64 file extension that she needs to view. My searching indicates that the .64 file extension is some form of proprietary security ...
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Save ffprobe Output to Log File?

I made a script for ffprobe I can use to view information of my media more easily. An additional feature I want is to breakout the output information to a log file. Implementation 1: @echo off for %%...
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Video sorting workflow

In windows 7, I used to use windows explorer to click on a video, press the play button, and decide if it was worth keeping. If it was worth keeping, I'd move it to a "use" folder. However, Windows ...
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Premiere Pro on Windows 10 N version - Can't import MP4

I've tried to install various codecs - not working. I still can download whole Media Feature, but that's what I would like to avoid, since N version is way lightier. Can you please advice me how I ...
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Last Adobe Premiere Pro version for Windows 7

Due to my hardware limitations, I'm forced to use Win7 instead of Win10. On my current version of Adobe Premiere Pro, I can't attach and work with proxies. I want to try newer version, but not the ...
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Corrupted video (Green/pink) on Premiere Pro CS6 in Win8.1 Pro 64bit but not on Mac OS Yosemite

I have a volume license for Premier Pro CS6 whereby I can run it on Mac OS and Windows. When I run it on Windows, I get this: But on MacOS it is fine. The video is HDV 1440x1080i MPEG4 QuickTime. ...
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How to generate decryption key from m3u8 manifest? (OR) How to decrypt an excrypted MP4 using URI and IV?

I am downloading an HLS video which is AES-128 encrypted. The issue is that the downloaded video is also encrypted and hence, not viewable. The website is serving 2 M3U8 manifests: The first ...
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Grey overlay when reading mp4 files in WMP

For a few days, when I play a mp4 video in Windows Media Player (WMP), there is something like a grey filter/overlay. Thus, the whites are greyish and blacks lack depth. This problem is only ...
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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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How to run multiple FFMPEG commands as a batch file in Windows 10/11?

I have the following code which adds a small overlay text over my video: ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vf "drawtext=fontfile=path\font.ttf:text='ABC':fontcolor=black:fontsize=45:box=1:boxcolor=white@1:...
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FFmpeg embed thumbnail Windows

I have seen commands like this online: ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i image.png -map 1 -map 0 -c copy \ -disposition:0 attached_pic out.mp4 However these command don't work as advertised with Windows ...
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How to losslessly replace a specific area in a range of frames

I have a short screen recording of an old video game (duration 1:38.72, 2468 frames, 25 fps, 320×200 px, 4 colours only, bgr24, CamStudio Lossless Codec, no sound, AVI). The video contains an ...
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What tools can I use for animating maps?

I know this is not the optimal type of question. Sorry for that. However I think it can be answered by listing some alternatives. So I want to make videos about travel and I am looking for a tool for ...
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Replacing DVD styler files when changing platforms

I had a DVD Styler file that I created on Windows, with paths starting with C:\Users\username\. I am now on Linux and want to change them to /home/username/. I searched online but couldn't find an ...
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Channel mapping in FFmpeg conversion of Dolby 7.1 mlp file to 8 channel wav file

I have a mlp file with 7.1 audio with the following channel mapping (viewed using MediaInfo): L R C LFE Ls Rs Lb Rb I want to convert it to an 8 channel riff64 wave file, so I'm using the following ...
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How can I clip off / crop out a piece of a .MOV file using a free tool?

I tried using ClipChamp to remove some sections of a video. I dragged the sidebars to the point where I want the video to end, but I see no way to then save this new/improved/shortened version. Is ...
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Bulk re-muxing/re-encoding with ffmpeg in multiple folders

I'm quite new to the world of FFmpeg and video editing tools, but I essentially need to change the hash of a large set of videos that are organized in folders and subfolders and the easiest way I've ...
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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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How do I set up and use FFmpeg in Windows?

I understand that FFmpeg is a powerful tool for video file conversions. I see online in many places people suggesting it for solutions or getting help in how to use it. The problem is, I don't even ...
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Windows 11 video capture program not recording audio with video

I'm wondering if the stock video capture program is used solely for video and not audio. Are there other programs that will record video with audio (for Youtube)? Am I missing something here (settings ...
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Using Batch Files and ffprobe what is the best approach for finding 5 videos with lowest preset?

I am on Windows 10 Pro. I am trying to find an effcient logic or way using a batch file, to search for videos in a folder. And give me 5 file names w/paths that have the lowest bitrate or video preset....
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Make sound settings created by ffmpeg apply to entire Windows applications

The recording sound of my microphone is weak, so I resorted to using ffmpeg to add a volume increase effect and some other effects. I created a simple batch file and recorded the sound with it, and it ...
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How to see if a video file is progressive or interlaced?

I can check the resolution of a video by Right Clicking -> Properties -> Details -> Video. Is there a way to see if the video is progressive or interlaced?
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Which desktop recording software can be used to record also right click popups

Most of desktop recording software which I have tried - like sharex, obs studio - does not record everything - like right mouse click popup windows are missing from recording. At least for external ...
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Extracting multiple video streams using FFmpeg

I have a video file that contains 4 streams, 3 videos streams and one steam for metadata. Stream Info: Input #0, matroska,webm, from 'output_master.mkv': Metadata: title : Azure Kinect ...
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How much better is Thunderbolt external HDD for video editing?

For the two activities of transferring 10GB-large mp4 (.mts) video files from external HDD to laptop, and editing these same files directly on the connected external HDD drive, how much better/...
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How to trim out black frames with ffmpeg on windows?

I have a short video and I'm trying to cut-out all the blank or near blank frames. This isn't a case where I care about the breaks in a video that could be dark. I literally want all near black-...
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ffmpeg-converted video file won't play in Windows Media Player or Movies & TV

I am using ffmpeg-python to convert an hevc mkv file to an h264 mp4. This is the relevant code: ffmpeg.input(video_file).output(out_name, vcodec='libx264', **{'pix_fmt': 'yuv420p'}).run() Yet after ...
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Monitor FFMPEG Rtmp live stream with FFPLAY pipe

I have wrestled with this for hours and can not figure out how to pipe this to ffplay so that i can monitor it. google searches and searches on here and stack overflow come up empty ffmpeg -...
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Concat Demuxer playlist

So according to the docs located here https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate section: Changing playlist files on the fly it says you can do this: Now you can change the looping clip by a simple ...
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Encoding videos for MPEG-DASH

I read this article on encoding for MPEG-DASH, which has helped me a little and then follow up article. My end goal is to create a batch file that can read in a directory of MP4 files, and then ...
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Removing streams in HEVC H.265 MKV file?

I have multiple MKV files with video encoded a la HEVC/H.265. I want to, using the Windows command line, make a new MKV file, stripping out all but specific subtitle tracks and audio tracks, on a ...
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How to double video frames without any duplicate frames

My video details : DV-PAL 720x576i , 25FPS , duration=20s , frames=500 I need to increase (double) the video frames without any duplicate frame. I used the following commands to increase (double) ...
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Import .flac to After Effects CS6

How can i import a simple .flac audio file to After Effects? I didn't find one single plugin/presets or answer at Adobe's site.
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Using FFMPEG to create video from images in sub folders

I know I can create a video from files in a folder like so: ffmpeg -f image2 -i %*.png out.avi But if the folder I am in have sub-folders can i use some sort of switch to read those image files in ...
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Video codec for simple animation?

I am generating an animation in Matlab, composed of simple diagrams. The images are characterized by fine structures, strong contrasts and mostly discrete colors, e.g. there are few-pixels wide black ...
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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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How to make DVR-generated MP4 easily playable in Windows?

I have a HAR324-8 DVR, and when I export a video clip, I get an MP4 that I cannot play with Windows Media Player 12, Chrome, or Edge browser. When I open the file with VLC Media Player 3.0.16, it will ...
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Video Editor that can import Photoshop PSD files and overlay them on video with transparent channel?

I am using Magix Movie Edit Pro for about 10 years because it has one feature that I use all the time: Being able to import Photoshop files (PSD) with transparent channels into the video and ...
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Are there any Windows video players that don't stutter when looping?

Title. I have spent the past few hours trying to smoothly loop a short 6-second animation I made in Blender. No matter what I use (VLC, Windows Movies and TV, heck I even tried installing MPlayer), ...
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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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Simple program for trimming video

I have a video of a concert, and a list of timestamps (5:06-15:49, 17:56-29:14...) that correspond to songs I would like to make into separate videos. Can anyone recommend a simple program I can use ...
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Improve video quality by lowering framerate

I have recorded a short movie using GoPro camera 1080p / Wide / 60fps. The video is really blurry, despite the fact that it was a quite good weather outside (middle of the day, partially cloudly). Is ...
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Windows FFMPEG concat from list and log each file inputted into to ffmpeg

Ok i have a working batch file, where I grab from a text file a list of videos to concat as such ffconcat version 1.0 file 'dan_Ep_01HardWater.ts' file 'dan_Ep_02GoldieTheGoldfish.ts' file 'list2.txt ...
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ffmpeg batch overlay Error: "Cannot find a matching stream for unlabeled input pad 1 on filter Parsed_overlay_0"

I am trying to create a batch file to run this script to add a watermark on each file in a folder ffmpeg -i input.mov -i watermark.png -filter_complex "overlay=10:10" output.mov The script above ...
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Video editing software like iMovie, for Windows?

Although skeptical at first, I took a liking to iMovie and began to rely on it heavily to edit many music videos. What I liked about iMovie was it's easy to use feel when it came to placing a clip ...
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FFMPEG fade out image overlay issue on windows 10

sorry if my question is not exactly the correct format, this is my first post here I have created a ffmpeg one line code that will fade in and fade out a transparent .png as a overlay here is my ...
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FFmpeg works in linux and same command in windows get me error Invalid data found when processing input

I have remote index.m3u8 file and I want to download it with ffmpeg. The contents file is: #EXTM3U #EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:6 #EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:YES #EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD #EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI=...