I currently have a jpeg file which I converted to an flv using the following command:
ffmpeg -r 10 -b 180000 -i test.jpg test.mp4
Now, I want to increase the duration of this .mp4 clip, so the picture stays on the screen for more than a split second. Eventually, I hope to merge a stream of these files to create a slide show out of jpeg files.
Does anyone know how to increase the duration of a clip in ffmpeg?
Looping the input and setting a duration should achieve the effect you want:
ffmpeg -loop_input -i test.jpg -t 10 test.mp4
Doing something like this should work (at least for a single image):
ffmpeg -loop_input -i picture.jpg -r 1 -vcodec flv -b 192k -i Music.mp3 -acodec copy -shortest output.flv
I bet you could get it working with multiple images by adding more inputs though I haven't tested.
(http://forum.videohelp.com/threads/280695-FFMPEG-Loop-input-video)
Related
Before posting I have searched and found similar questions on stackoverflow (I list some below) - none have helped me towards a solution, hence this post. The duration that each image is shown within the movie file differs from many posts that I have seen thus far.
A camera captures 1 image every 30 seconds. I need stream them, preferably via HLS, thus I wrap 2 images in an MP4. I then convert MP4 to mpegts. Each MP4 and TS file play fine individually (each contain two images, each image transitions after 30seconds, each movie file is 1minute long).
When I reference the two TS files in an M3U8 playlist, only the first TS file gets played. Can anyone advise why it stops and how I can get it to play all the TS files that I expect to create, not just the first TS file? Besides my ffmpeg commands, I also include my VLC log file (though I expect to stream to Firefox/Chrome clients). I am using ffmpeg 4.2.2-static installed on an AWS EC2 with AMI2 Linux.
I have four jpgs named image11.jpg, image12.jpg, image21.jpg, image22.jpg - The images look near identical as only the timestamp in top left changes.
The following command creates 1.mp4, using image11.jpg and image12.jpg, each image displayed for 30 seconds, total duration of the mp4 is 1 minute. It plays like expected.
ffmpeg -y -framerate 1/30 -f image2 -i image1%1d.jpg -c:v libx264 -vf "fps=1,format=yuvj420p" 1.mp4
I then convert 1.mp4 to an mpegts file, creating 1.ts. It plays like expected.
ffmpeg -y -i 1.mp4 -c:v libx264 -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -flags -global_header -f mpegts 1.ts
I repeat the above steps except specific to image21.jpg and image22.jpg, creating 2.mp4 and 2.ts
ffmpeg -y -framerate 1/30 -f image2 -i image1%1d.jpg -c:v libx264 -vf "fps=1,format=yuvj420p" 2.mp4
ffmpeg -y -i 1.mp4 -c:v libx264 -vbsf h264_mp4toannexb -flags -global_header -f mpegts 2.ts
Thus now I have 1.mp4, 1.ts, 2.mp4, 2.ts and all four play individually just fine.
Using ffprobe I can confirm their duration is 60seconds, for example:
ffprobe -i 1.ts -v quiet -show_entries format=duration -hide_banner -print_format json
My m3u8 playlist follows:
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-VERSION:4
#EXT-X-PLAYLIST-TYPE:VOD
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:1
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:60.000
#EXTINF:60.0000,
1.ts
#EXTINF:60.000,
2.ts
#EXT-X-ENDLIST
Can anyone advise where I am going wrong?
VLC Error Log (though I expect to play via web browser)
I have researched the process using these (and other pages) as a guide:
How to create a video from images with ffmpeg
convert from jpg to mp4 by ffmpeg
ffmpeg examples page
FFMPEG An Intermediate Guide/image sequence
How to use FFmpeg to convert images to video
Take a look at the start_pts/start_time in the ffprobe -show_streams output, my guess is that they all start at zero/near-zero which will cause playback to fail after your first segment.
You can still produce them independently but you will want to use something like -output_ts_offset to correctly set the timestamps for subsequent segments.
The following solution works well for me. I have tested it uninterrupted for more than two hours and believe it ticks all my boxes. (Edited because I forgot the all important -re tag)
ffmpeg will loop continuously, reading test.jpg and stream it to my RTMP server. When my camera posts an image every 30seconds, I copy the new image on top of the existing test.jpg which in effect changes what is streamed out.
Note the command below is all one line, I have put new lines in to assist reading and The order of the parameters are important - the loop and fflags genpts for example must appear before the -i parameter
ffmpeg
-re
-loop 1
-fflags +genpts
-framerate 1/30
-i test.jpg
-c:v libx264
-vf fps=25
-pix_fmt yuvj420p
-crf 30
-f fifo -attempt_recovery 1 -recovery_wait_time 1
-f flv rtmp://localhost:5555/video/test
Some arguments explained:
-re implies play in real time
loop 1 (1 turns the loop on, 0 off)
-fflags +genpts is something I only half understand. PTS I believe is the start/end time of the segment and without this flag, the PTS is reset to zero with every new image. Using this arguement means I avoid EXT-X-DISCONTINUITY when a new image is served.
-framerate 1/30 means one frame for 30seconds
-i test.jpg is my image 'placeholder'. As new images are received via a separate script, it overwrites this image. When combined with loop it means the ffmpeg output will reference the new image.
-c:v libx264 is for H264 video output formating
-vf fps=25 Removing this, or using a different value resulted in my output stream not being 30seconds.
-pix_fmt yuvj420p (sometimes I have seen yuv420p referenced but this did not work on my environment). I believe there are different jpg colour palettes and this switch ensures I can process a wider choice.
-crf 30 implies highest quality image, lowest compression (important for my client)
-f fifo -attempt_recovery 1 -recovery_wait_time 1 -f flv rtmp://localhost:5555/video/test is part of the magic to go with loop. I believe it keeps the connection open with my stream server, reduces the risk of DISCONTINUITY in the play list.
I hope this helps someone going forward.
The following links helped nudge me forward and I share as it might help others to improve upon my solution
Creating a video from a single image for a specific duration in ffmpeg
How can I loop one frame with ffmpeg? All the other frames should point to the first with no changes, maybe like a recusion
Display images on video at specific framerate with loop using FFmpeg
Loop image ffmpeg HLS
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Slideshow
https://superuser.com/questions/1699893/generate-ts-stream-from-image-file
https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#Examples-3
https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/StreamingGuide
Im using ffmpeg to change resolution of video file and after conversion to another location the video lasts 0 seconds, but originally it lasts 2mins
My ffmepg code:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:v scale=480:320 -t 5 output.mp4
Why are you using the -t modifier? You want to cut the video up? Otherwise, this will convert the whole length to the new quality.
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -filter:v scale480:320 output.mp4
I'd like to programmatically create a video file that is composed of a series of images. However, I'd also like to be able to specify a duration for each image. I often see ffmpeg examples suggested for similar tasks, but they always assume the same duration for each image. Is there an efficient way to accomplish this? (An inefficient solution might be setting the frame rate to something high and repeatedly copying each image until it matches the intended duration)
I will be dynamically generating each of the images as well, so if there is way to encode the image data into video frames without writing each image to disk, that's even better. This, however, is not a requirement.
Edit: To be clear, I don't necessarily need to use ffmpeg. Other free command-line tools are fine, as are video-processing libraries. I'm just looking for a good solution.
I was able to solve the exact same problem with the following commands.
vframes is set to the number of seconds * fps
In the example the first video has 100 frames (100 frame / 25 fps = 4 seconds) and second one has 200 frames (8 seconds)
ffmpeg -f image2 -loop 1 -vframes 100 -r 25 -i a.jpg -vcodec mpeg4 a.avi
ffmpeg -f image2 -loop 1 -vframes 200 -r 25 -i b.jpg -vcodec mpeg4 b.avi
mencoder -ovc copy -o out.mp4 a.mp4 b.mp4
The mencoder part is just like the one of d33pika
You can use the concat demuxer to manually order images and to provide a specific duration for each image.
ffmpeg -f concat -i input.txt -vsync vfr -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mp4
Your input.txt should look like this.
file '/path/to/dog.png'
duration 5
file '/path/to/cat.png'
duration 1
file '/path/to/rat.png'
duration 3
file '/path/to/tapeworm.png'
duration 2
file '/path/to/tapeworm.png'
You can write this txt file dynamically according to your needs and excute the command.
For more info refer to https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Slideshow
It seems like there is no way to have different durations for different images using ffmpeg. I would create separate videos for each of the images and then concat them using mencoder like this:
ffmpeg -f image2 -vframes 30 -i a.jpg -vcodec libx264 -r 1 a.mp4
ffmpeg -f image2 -vframmes 10 -i bjpg -vcodec libx264 -r 1 b.mp4
mencoder -ovc copy -o out.mp4 a.mp4 b.mp4
mencoder for the concat operation needs all the output videos to have same resolution,framerate and codec.
Here a.mp4 has 30 frames of duration 30 seconds and b.mp4 has 10 frames of 10 seconds.
With FFmpeg you have the option -t which will set the duration of the output. However I do not see a way to limit the duration of the input. Take this command
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -c copy -t 60 out.mp4
This simply creates a 60 second clip of the original video. However if I wanted to clip the audio while keeping the full video stream, FFmpeg does not seem to have an option for this.
I have tried simply clipping the audio first, then combining the clipped audio with the video file, but this causes video/audio sync issues for me.
‘-aframes number (output)’
Set the number of audio frames to record. This is an alias for -frames:a.
§ Audio Options
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -c copy -aframes 100 out.mp4
Use the "-itsoffset" option.
This makes the first 10 seconds mute.
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -acodec copy -ss 10.0 out_audio.mp4
ffmpeg -itsoffset 10.0 -i out_audio.mp4 -i video.mp4 -vcodec copy -acodec copy out.mp4
Does anyone know if it is possible to encode a video using ffmpeg in reverse? (So the resulting video plays in reverse?)
I think I can by generating images for each frame (so a folder of images labelled 1.jpg, 2.jpg etc), then write a script to change the image names, and then re-encode the ivdeo from these files.
Does anyone know of a quicker way?
This is an FLV video.
Thank you
No, it isn't possible using ffmpeg to encode a video in reverse without dumping it to images and then back again. There are a number of guides available online to show you how to do it, notably:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1353893
and
https://sites.google.com/site/linuxencoding/ffmpeg-tips
The latter of which follows:
Dump all video frames
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -an -qscale 1 %06d.jpg
Dump audio
$ ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vn -ac 2 audio.wav
Reverse audio
$ sox -V audio.wav backwards.wav reverse
Cat video frames in reverse order to FFmpeg as input
$ cat $(ls -r *jpg) | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -vcodec mjpeg -r 25 -i - -i backwards.wav -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -crf 20 -threads 0 -acodec flac output.mkv
Use mencoder to deinterlace PAL dv and double the frame rate from 25 to 50, then pipe to FFmpeg.
$ mencoder input.dv -of rawvideo -ofps 50 -ovc raw -vf yadif=3,format=i420 -nosound -really-quiet -o - | ffmpeg -vsync 0 -f rawvideo -s 720x576 -r 50 -pix_fmt yuv420p -i - -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -crf 20 -threads 0 video.mkv
I've created a script for this based on Andrew Stubbs' answer
https://gist.github.com/hfossli/6003302
Can be used like so
./ffmpeg_sox_reverse.sh -i Desktop/input.dv -o test.mp4
New Solution
A much simpler method exists now, simply use the command (adjusting input.mkv and reversed.mkv accordingly):
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -af areverse -vf reverse reversed.mkv
The -af areverse will reverse audio, and -vf reverse will reverse video. The video and audio will be in sync automatically in the output file reversed.mkv, no need to worry about the input frame rate or anything else.
On one video if I only specified the -vf reverse to reverse video (but not audio), the output file didn't play correctly in mkv format but did work if I changed it to mp4 output format (I don't think this use case of reversing video only but not audio is common, but if you do run into this issue you can try changing the output format). On large input videos that exceed the RAM available in your computer, this method may not work and you may need to chop up the input file or use the old solution below.
Old Solution
One issue is the frame rate can vary depending on the video, many answers depend on a specific frame rate (like "-r 25" for 25 frames per second). If the frame rate in the video is different, this will cause the reversed audio and video to go out of sync.
You can of course manually adjust the frame rate each time (you can get the frame rate by running ffmpeg -i video.mkv and look for the number in front of the fps, this is sometimes a decimal number like 23.98). But with some bash code you can easily extract the fps, store it in a variable, and automatically pass it to the programs.
Based on this I've created the following bash script to do that. Simply chmod +x it and run it ./make-reversed-video.sh input.mkv output.mkv. The code is as follows:
#!/bin/bash
#Partially based on https://nhs.io/reverse/, but with some modifications, including automatic extraction of the frame rate.
#Get parameters.
VIDEO_FILE=$1
OUTPUT_FILE=$2
TEMP_FOLDER=$3
echo Using input file: $VIDEO_FILE
echo Using output file: $OUTPUT_FILE
mkdir /tmp/create_reversed_video
#Get frame rate.
FRAME_RATE=$(ffmpeg -i "$VIDEO_FILE" 2>&1 | grep -o -P '[0-9\\. ]+fps' | grep -o -P '[0-9\\.]+')
echo The frame rate is: $FRAME_RATE
#Extract audio from video.
ffmpeg -i "$VIDEO_FILE" -vn -ac 2 /tmp/create_reversed_video/audio.wav
#Reverse the audio.
sox -V /tmp/create_reversed_video/audio.wav /tmp/create_reversed_video/backwards.wav reverse
#Extract each video frame as an image.
ffmpeg -i "$VIDEO_FILE" -an -qscale 1 /tmp/create_reversed_video/%06d.jpg
#Recombine into reversed video.
ls -1 /tmp/create_reversed_video/*.jpg | sort -r | xargs cat | ffmpeg -framerate $FRAME_RATE -f image2pipe -i - -i /tmp/create_reversed_video/backwards.wav "$OUTPUT_FILE"
#Delete temporary files.
rm -rf /tmp/create_reversed_video
I've tested it and it works well on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine on lots of videos (after installing the dependencies like sox). Please let me know if it works on other Linux distributions and versions.