Usefull Commands: Video at Coolkevmen

Change the aspect ratio of a film for the playback. Standard aspect ratio are : 1.33 (4:3), 1.66 (1.66:1), 1.77 (16:9) and 2.35 (2.35:1):

mplayer -aspect 2:1 ./video.avi
Play the video with subtitles:

mplayer -sub ./subtitle_file.txt ./video.avi
This will extract audio track no. 128, downmix the AC3 sound to PCM and write the results to file.wav:

mplayer -vo null -hardframedrop -aid 128 -ao pcm -aofile file.wav dvd://1
This will extract the audio, convert it to PCM and write the resulting wave file to audio.wav:

mplayer -vo null -hardframedrop -ao pcm:file=audio.wav myvideo.avi
Extract to chapter.txt the chapter file of the track n°1 of the DVD:

dvdxchap -t 1 /mnt/cdrom > chapter.txt
Show all subtitles streams:

mplayer -vo null -ao null -frames 0 -v 2 dvd://1 >&1 | grep sid
Extract the raw subtitle stream. The -a 0x21 option correspond to the subtitle stream’s hexadecimal number (= 0×20 + id of the stream):

tccat -i /space/st-tng/dic1/ -T 1 -L | tcextract -x ps1 -t vob -a 0x22 > subs-en
Create a rotated copy of the file.avi video (rotate=1 : clockwise ; rotate=2 : anti-clockwise):

mencoder -vop rotate=2 -oac pcm -ovc lavc ./source.avi -o ./dest.avi
Preview a video composed of all jpeg files from the current folder at 15fps (mplayer only support jpeg, png, tga and sgi formats):

mplayer "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=15
Create a 15fps video from all jpeg files of the current folder:

mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=15 -ovc lavc -o ./dest.avi
Encode a SVCD to AVI file:

mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc vcd://1 -o ./svcd.avi
Transcode video to raw format (be carefull: usually the output video got annoying audio delay):

mencoder -oac pcm -ovc raw -ofps 25 -noskip ./video.wmv -o ./video.avi
Encode a video using the default mpeg4 codec at 400 kbps for video and mp3 codec at constant 32 kbps bitrate for audio:

mencoder -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:preset=32 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vbitrate=400 in.avi -o out.avi
Enhance the sharpness of the video:

mplayer video.avi -vf smartblur=.6:-.5:0,unsharp=l5x5:.8:c5x5:.4
Merge multiple video into one:

avimerge -i part1.avi part2.avi -o big-file.avi
Cut a video to keep the first 5.4 seconds:

mencoder big-file.avi -ss 0 -endpos 5.4 -ovc copy -oac copy -o cutted.avi
Cut a video to keep everything exept the first 5.4 seconds:

mencoder big-file.avi -ss 5.4 -ovc copy -oac copy -o cutted.avi
Show all mplayer filter list:

mplayer -vf help
Get help of a particular filter (eq2 in this example):

mplayer -vf eq2=help
Here is the filter I use to light up a video taken in the dark with my cheap camera. Of course it add noise but thanks to this we can distinguish shapes in the dark.

mencoder -vf eq2=1.61:1.95:0.54:2.43 -oac pcm -ovc lavc video.avi -o bright-vid.avi
And this is the command to preview the result of the filter used above:

mplayer video.avi -vf eq2=1.61:1.95:0.54:2.43
This is how I convert raw videos taken with my digital camera into ISO standard MPEG-4 (DivX 5, XVID compatible) videos [to encode in grayscale, add :gray option to -lavcopts]:

mencoder source.avi \ -ovc lavc -oac lavc -ffourcc DX50 \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=400:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect:dia=2:acodec=mp3:abitrate=32:vpass=1 \ -vf hqdn3d -o output.avi mencoder source.avi \ -ovc lavc -oac lavc -ffourcc DX50 \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=400:v4mv:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect:dia=2:acodec=mp3:abitrate=32:vpass=2 \ -vf hqdn3d -o output.avi
Play all videos of the current folder fullscreen at 4x speed with 50% more brightness:

mplayer -speed 4 -brightness 50 -fs ./*.avi
Extract audio stream from a video:

mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile audio.ac3 video_source.mpg
Test XV video driver output via gstreamer v0.10:

gst-launch-0.10 videotestsrc ! xvimagesink

7 Responses to “Usefull Commands: Video”

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1 Asif Ali Rizwaan
1 year, 8 months ago.

To extract MP3 audio from an AVI or video file:

ffmpeg -i video.avi extracted_mp3.mp3
2 Anonymous
1 year, 7 months ago.

I’d like to convert a set of png and a single mp3 file into an movie file (avi, mpeg or other) is there a way to do this?

Could I bother you to email me the response at
menco.20.zdux0012 (at) xoxy.net ?

Thanks for your time!!
3 DeGa
1 year, 5 months ago.

Yes you can do it using Adobe Premier (LOL)….
4 kev
1 year, 5 months ago.

I tried to contact that anonymous guy asking him why he was so secret, but he never answered me…

About his technical question: yes, you can do that and it’s pretty easy thanks to ManDVD, a GUI tool to build slideshows.
5 smita
1 year, 3 months ago.

I want to change aspect ratio of video in Linux .. How to do so ????
6 aranazo
6 months, 1 week ago.
- Taking screenshots:
  
  mplayer -vf screenshot t.mpg
  
  Take screenshots: s = one shot, S = start taking shots
- Save streamed internet video:
  
  mplayer -dumpstream -playlist stream.ram
- Also the tovid suite of programs to convert files to convert to dvd format and author dvd.