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> (Not a knock against this service, but just a testament to the complexity of ffmpeg lol) I found a modified a ffmpeg shell script no later than yesterday tha

> (Not a knock against this service, but just a testament to the complexity of ffmpeg lol) I found a modified a ffmpeg shell script no later than yesterday that finds all my movies files and generates one jpeg with 16 "tiles" thumbnails for each movie to try to make sense of the countless family "MOV40931.MOV" and whatnots and I've got to say: I agree with you. My big moment of solitude was when I started to work on parallelizing my shell script only to realize that, of course, ffmpeg already makes good use of all the cores so there's no point in parallelizing the shell script.

Maursault 4y ago
> I found a modified a ffmpeg shell script no later than yesterday that finds all my movies files and generates one jpeg with 16 "tiles" thumbnails for each movie I wrote a script called dovid I left on Pastebin that creates contact sheets (what you are describing) for every video file of any popular format in the directory executed and then combines them into a webpage or pdf. But it isn't an exceptional script because it just utilizes vcs[1] and convert (ImageMagick). At some point, I stopped using the script and just aliased this command (arbitrarily as 'peak') in my ~/.bash_profile alias peak='for i in *.mkv *.mpg *.wmv *.avi *.mov *.m4v *.mp4; do echo "$i"; /opt/local/bin/vcs -q -q -j -dt -ds -dp -u "0" -n 16 -c 4 -H 162 "$i"; done; echo ".......... converting jpgs to a pdf"; /opt/local/bin/convert *.jpg index.pdf; /bin/rm *.jpg' Creates a pdf of contact sheets 4x4@162dpi, much neater than a directory filled with as many jpegs as videos. Obviously, this is dangerous and destructive if there are other jpeg files in that directory. [1] http://p.outlyer.net/vcs http://p.outlyer.net/vcs (ffmpeg is a dependency)
meep0l 4y ago
Would you be willing to share that script, or the one you modified to make it?

Maursault 4y ago

> I found a modified a ffmpeg shell script no later than yesterday that finds all my movies files and generates one jpeg with 16 "tiles" thumbnails for each movie I wrote a script called dovid I left on Pastebin that creates contact sheets (what you are describing) for every video file of any popular format in the directory executed and then combines them into a webpage or pdf. But it isn't an exceptional script because it just utilizes vcs[1] and convert (ImageMagick). At some point, I stopped using the script and just aliased this command (arbitrarily as 'peak') in my ~/.bash_profile alias peak='for i in *.mkv *.mpg *.wmv *.avi *.mov *.m4v *.mp4; do echo "$i"; /opt/local/bin/vcs -q -q -j -dt -ds -dp -u "0" -n 16 -c 4 -H 162 "$i"; done; echo ".......... converting jpgs to a pdf"; /opt/local/bin/convert *.jpg index.pdf; /bin/rm *.jpg' Creates a pdf of contact sheets 4x4@162dpi, much neater than a directory filled with as many jpegs as videos. Obviously, this is dangerous and destructive if there are other jpeg files in that directory. [1] http://p.outlyer.net/vcs http://p.outlyer.net/vcs (ffmpeg is a dependency)

meep0l 4y ago

Would you be willing to share that script, or the one you modified to make it?