I have a bunch of short videos on my infrequently used windows XP system that were created using a program called HJSplit. The same program can be used to join the files into one large file. Is there something similar to this that runs on linux or more specifically Suse 10.3?
Thanks.
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:06:03 GMT
silkmaze <silkmaze@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> I have a bunch of short videos on my infrequently used windows XP system
> that were created using a program called HJSplit. The same program can
> be used to join the files into one large file. Is there something
> similar to this that runs on linux or more specifically Suse 10.3?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
Depending on the type of videos, “avidemux” might work. It’s mainly
for .avi files.
“dvbcut” can do some operations on mpeg’s
“kdenlive” works with video, never used it.
Although maybe an odd suggestion, but I would consider using “devede” to
convert and create mpeg’s from multiple videos. It’s actually a dvd creation
tool, and can create mpeg videos or full ISO images ready to burn to cd or
dvd. I suggest this since it will accept a wide range of formats, and produce
mpeg output.
“cinlerra” is a VERY powerful video editing too which would work for your
needs, but I feel it’s almost overkill.
There are likely other programs out there which can help… hopefully some of
the other forum members will chime in and suggest others to try.
If you could provide information on the type/format of videos you have,
someone might be able to suggest a specific tool to work with them more
efficiently or faster.
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
Thanks very much for the quick reply. You have suggested a load of tools I had never heard of. Are they already on the Suse system or am I going to go and get them from somewhere else?
As to what kind of files I want to stitch together; I found a couple of videos on Youtube, more like a series, each one just under 10 min in length. The whole “film” would be anywhere between 30 min - 90 min long. Instead of watching each lecture or “film” as a streamed video, or as a *.flv file that I have downloaded,
I was looking for some tool that would allow me to “string” these files in sequence and watch the whole thing in one sitting; a bit like Quicktime player in windows. If you load a vid in Quicktime then at the end of the video, instead of opening a new console, just open the next video in line, or drag and drop it into the open player, you can then save the 2 or 3 or more as a single new video that will seamlessly play the whole film in one sitting.
Any ideas?
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:36:03 GMT
silkmaze <silkmaze@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks very much for the quick reply. You have suggested a load of tools
> I had never heard of. Are they already on the Suse system or am I going
> to go and get them from somewhere else?
>
> As to what kind of files I want to stitch together; I found a couple of
> videos on Youtube, more like a series, each one just under 10 min in
> length. The whole “film” would be anywhere between 30 min - 90 min
> long. Instead of watching each lecture or “film” as a streamed video,
> or as a *.flv file that I have downloaded,
>
> I was looking for some tool that would allow me to “string” these files
> in sequence and watch the whole thing in one sitting; a bit like
> Quicktime player in windows. If you load a vid in Quicktime then at the
> end of the video, instead of opening a new console, just open the next
> video in line, or drag and drop it into the open player, you can then
> save the 2 or 3 or more as a single new video that will seamlessly play
> the whole film in one sitting.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
Oh EASY!!
The tools mentioned are all available through yast, although you may need to
have the Packman repository installed to get some.
I prefer mplayer to all the rest of the video media players I’ve seen so
far, and have heard good things about ‘smplayer’, which is a front-end to
mplayer. Supposed to make it nicer.
Anyways, install mplayer and w32codecs.
If you click on the videos and play them with mplayer, you’ll actually get
‘gmplayer’ which is the GUI version. Nice, but the extra little
‘controller’ window that comes up is bothersome to me, so I usually alter
the file association to use ‘mplayer’ instead of ‘gmplayer’.
The difference? mplayer is a console/terminal application… no extra
windows to bother me, all functions are just keystrokes anyways.
SO… to play a series of videos, put them all in a subdirectory, open a
konsole or gnome-terminal or whatever, cd to the subdir where you saved all
those videos, and type:
mplayer video1.flv video2.flv video3.flv {and so on}
If the files are named such that they sort alphabetically, then you can do:
mplayer *.flv
Of course, sometimes you want full screen playback…
mplayer -fs *.flv
Handy keystrokes…
space pause
f toggle fullscreen/window
keypad * volume up
keypad / volume down
o on screen display, cycles through 4 displays
m mute
. single-frame advance
q quit
arrows fast-forward, fast-rewind
pgup/pgdn ff/fr more
bkspace speed=1.00
/] speed up/dn
{/} speed *2 or *1/2
That’s what I can remember off the top of my head… see the mplayer man page
of course.
full screen covers up the terminal window, so nothing to distract you, and
just push keys to do things… no ‘control panel’ needed. yaay!
If you want to get really fancy, you can tell KDE to not draw window
decorations on the mplayer video window (the close/minimize/maximize bar) and
you just get a window playing videos! Move it by holding ‘ALT’ and dragging
the video to where you want it.
{Grin} of course, this is just how I do it…
Loni
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L R Nix
lornix@lornix.com
That’s great. Thank for that tip. I have been using SMPlayer and MPlayer for a while but never thought of looking to see what else they can do.
I’ll be checking it out this weekend.
Thanks.
