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Well done! Yet, I think with properly recovered meta-data you do not need to splice long videos into separate clips, use ffmpeg to stream from a given file at g
by ruslan 6y ago
Well done! Yet, I think with properly recovered meta-data you do not need to splice long videos into separate clips, use ffmpeg to stream from a given file at given place. You keep just 45 .mp4 files (one per tape) and a single .csv (or whatever format you store your meta-data in). Programming tricks will let you reorder or fix clips on-the-fly just by editing your meta-data. That's what I plan to do with my video archive :)
- mtlynch 6y agoThanks for reading! That's an interesting idea. If you're writing the whole backend yourself, it would work, but wouldn't you run into issues if you're using tools that expect individual video files (e.g., utilities to generate thumbnails)? It's taking something that could just be static files (possibly even an entire static site) and introducing on-the-fly processing.
- ruslan 6y agoWith the help of this same ffmpeg tool your script could generate/re-generate thumbs when it is necessary (or meta-data updated) if you need them in separate files, of course :-).