I'm using this shell command to make thumbnail from VIDEO_FILE from 123 second and save it to THUMBNAIL_FILE.
ffmpeg -i VIDEO_FILE -r 1 -ss 123 -f image2 THUMBNAIL_FILE
It works, but it is really slow for big movies. Is there any way to make it a little faster?
it has happened to me also, changing the argument order fixes this problem.
tested on a 1.4GB 90 minute mp4 video - took about 1-2 seconds. before that it took MINUTES...
try this:
ffmpeg -ss 123 -i "VIDEO_FILE" "THUMBNAIL_FILE" -r 1 -vframes 1 -an -vcodec mjpeg
Ffmpeg is not really good with creating thumbnails as I investigated. People recommend to use mplayer (by ffmpeg creators).
mplayer VIDEO_FILE -ss 00:10:11 -frames 1 -vo jpeg:outdir=THUMBNAILS_DIRECTORY
A small enhancement to Kirzilla's code: If you want to create PNG files (with compression), you can use the following code:
mplayer VIDEO_FILE -ss 00:10:11 -frames 1 -vo png:z=9:outdir=THUMBNAILS_DIRECTORY
This will probably create better thumbnails but of course with a larger size than JPEG.
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I'm using ffmpeg to take screenshot from online video stream. I want to seek multiple timeline. I've used the following command to capture 1 screenshot by seek command:
ffmpeg -ss 00:02:10 -i "stream-url" -frames:v 1 out1.jpg
How I can take multiple screenshot via multiple seek time. I've searched for the solution but no success.
I've used the following command to take multiple screenshot as follows:
ffmpeg -noaccurate_seek -ss 00:01:10 -i "stream-url" -map 0:v:0 -vframes 1 -f mpeg "thumb/output_01.jpg" -ss 00:02:10 -i "stream-url" -map 1:v:0 -vframes 1 -f mpeg "thumb/output_02.jpg"
Is there any way to generate screenshots from same input via seek command? How to make it more faster? How to skip multiple input(-i param)? I've also tried with other commands but those are more slower. Can anyone help me?
There's no easy way I know to specify a number of arbitrary seek points from which to extract frames (similar question here).
However, seeking is very fast with the way you specified. Instead of constructing a complex command, you could just download the YouTube video using youtube-dl (if you haven't done that already) and generate the commands like this:
ffmpeg -ss 00:01:10 -i input -frames:v 1 out1.jpg
ffmpeg -ss 00:02:05 -i input -frames:v 1 out2.jpg
ffmpeg -ss 00:03:20 -i input -frames:v 1 out3.jpg
Note that exporting JPG might lead to low quality. Using PNG is preferred; you will get lossless frames that you can handle with another program later (e.g. to resize or compress).
If you want to get frames from regular intervals, use the fps filter to drop the framerate:
ffmpeg -i input -filter:v fps=1/60 out%02d.jpg
This will output a frame every minute (1/60 frames per second = 1 frame per minute), with two zero-padded digits as output numbers. You could additionally offset the start by providing a -ss option before the input file.
I have come across https://askubuntu.com/questions/377579/ffmpeg-output-screenshot-gallery/377630#377630, it's perfect. That has done exactly what I wanted.
However, I'm using remote URLs to generate the screenshot timeline. I do know it's possible to fast seek with remote files using https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Seeking%20with%20FFmpeg (using -ss before the -i) but this only runs the once.
I'm looking for a way to use the
./ffmpeg -i input -vf "select=gt(scene\,0.4),scale=160:-1,tile,scale=600:-1" \
-frames:v 1 -qscale:v 3 preview.jpg
command but using the fast seek method as it's currently very slow when used with a remote file. I use PHP but I am aware that a C method exists by using av_seek_frame, I barely know C so I'm unable to implement this into a PHP script I'm writing. So hopefully, it is possible to do this directly with ffmpeg in the PHP system() function.
Currently, I run seperate ffmpeg commands (with the -ss method) and then combine the screenshots together in PHP. However, with this method it will be refetching the metadata each time and a more optimized method would be to have it all happen in the same command line because I want to reduce the amount of requests made to the remote url so I can run more scripts in sequence with each other.
Thank you for your help.
Yes it's because -ss is not before -i and you need to add that before each input.
So here's a working example that takes it out super fast.
ffmpeg -ss 10 -i test.avi -frames:v 1 -f image2 -map 0:v:0 thumbnails/output_0.png \
-ss 800 -i test.avi -frames:v 1 -f image2 -map 1:v:0 thumbnails/output_1.png \
-ss 2400 -i test.avi -frames:v 1 -f image2 -map 2:v:0 thumbnails/output_2.png
So the 0 : v : 0 means 1st input, and select video streams, first videostream 1 : v : 0 means 2nd input, and select video streams, first videostream (0) 2 : v : 0 means 2nd input, and select video streams, first videostream (0)
The main reason why this is slow is because "select=gt(scene\,0.4)" requires every frame to be decoded and compared to the next so that scene changes can be detected.
I don't believe it is possible to do what you are doing any faster than you are doing with the scene change detector. You could provide n screenshot from video_duration/n steps through the video, additionally you could also check each frame isn't black by checking the image intensity is above a threshold.
$ffmpeg = "ffmpeg.exe";
$cmd = "$ffmpeg -ss 20 -i $Filename -frames:v 1 mjpeg -map 0:v:0 $Thumbnail";
$Return = `$cmd`;
Makes extremely fast thumbnails of videos. $Filename is the file and path of your video e.g. C:\videos\video_1.mp4
And $Thumbnail is the file path AND filename to where you want your thumbnail stored e.g. C:\Thumbnails\Thumbnail_1.jpg
I am trying to extract the image file from a RTSP stream url every second (could be every 1 min also) and overwrite this image file.
my below code works but it outputs to multiple image jpg files: img1.jpg, img2.jpg, img3.jpg...
ffmpeg -i rtsp://IP_ADDRESS/live.sdp -f image2 -r 1 img%01d.jpg
How to use ffmpeg or perhaps bash scripts in Linux to overwrite the same image file while continuously extract the image at a NOT high frequecy, say 1 min or 10 sec?
To elaborate a bit on the already accepted answer from pragnesh,
FFmpeg
As stated in the ffmpeg documentation:
ffmpeg command line options are specified as
ffmpeg [global_options] {[input_options] -i input_file} ... {[output_options] output_file} ...
So
ffmpeg -i rtsp://<rtsp_source_addr> -f image2 -update 1 img.jpg
Uses output option -f image2 , force output format to image2 format, as part of the muxer stage.
Note that in ffmpeg, if the output file name specifies an image format the image2 muxer will be used by default, so the command could be shortened to:
ffmpeg -i rtsp://<rtsp_source_addr> -update 1 img.jpg
The image2 format muxer expects a filename pattern, such as img%01d.jpg to produce a sequentially numbered series of files. If the update option is set to 1, the filename will be interpreted as just a filename, not a pattern, thereby overwriting the same file.
Using the -r , set frame rate, video option works, but generated me a whole lot of dropping frame messages which was bugging me.
Thanks to another answer on the same topic, I found the fps Video Filter to do a better job.
So my version of the working command is
ffmpeg -i rtsp://<rtsp_source_addr> -vf fps=fps=1/20 -update 1 img.jpg
For some reason still unkown to me the minimum framerate I can achieve from my feed is 1/20 or 0.05.
There also exists the video filter thumbnail, which selects an image from a series of frames but this is more processing intensive and therefore I would not recommend it.
Most of this and more I found on the FFMpeg Online Documentation
AVconv
For those of you who use avconv it is very similar. They are after all forks of what was once a common library. The AVconv image2 documentation is found here.
avconv -i rtsp://<rtsp_source_addr> -vf fps=fps=1/20 -update 1 img.jpg
As Xianlin pointed out there may be a couple other interesting options to use:
-an : Disables audio recording.
Found in Audio Options Section
-r < fps > : sets frame rate
Found in the Video Options Section
used as an output option is actually a a substitute for the fps filter
leading to an alternate version :
avconv -i rtsp://<rtsp_source_addr> -r 1/20 -an -update 1 img.jpg
Hope it helps understand for possible further tweaking ;)
Following command line should work for you.
ffmpeg -i rtsp://IP_ADDRESS/live.sdp -f image2 -updatefirst 1 img.jpg
I couldn't get the option -update working to overwrite the .jpg. Doing some experiments resulted in a working solution (at least for me) with the option -y at the end (upper-case is not working). I also needed http:// instead of rstp:// for this camera.
ffmpeg -i http://xx:yy#192.168.1.xx:yyy/snapshot.cgi /tmp/Capture2.jpg -y
Grab a snapshot from an RTSP video stream every 10 seconds.
#!/bin/bash
#fetch-snapshots.sh
url='rtsp://IP_ADDRESS/live.sdp'
avconv -i $url -r 0.1 -vsync 1 -qscale 1 -f image2 images%09d.jpg
-r rate set frame rate to 0.1 frames a second (this equals to 1 frame every 10 seconds).
Thanks to westonruter, see https://gist.github.com/westonruter/4508842
Furthermore have a look at FFMPEG: Extracting 20 images from a video of variable length
ffmpeg -i rtsp://root:password#192.168.1.1/mpeg4 -ss 00:00:01 -f image2 -vframes 1 thumb.jpg
replace with your rtsp protocol url
make sure 00:00:01
if you put other numbers, the image will be crashed
I am trying to create a video out of a sequence of images and various audio files using FFmpeg. While it is no problem to create a video containing the sequence of images with the following command:
ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg video.mpg
I haven't found a way yet to add audio files at specific points to the generated video.
Is it possible to do something like:
ffmpeg -f image2 -i image%d.jpg -i audio1.mp3 AT 10s -i audio2.mp3 AT 15s video.mpg
Any help is much appreciated!
EDIT:
The solution in my case was to use sox as suggested by blahdiblah in the answer below. You first have to create an empty audio file as a starting point like that:
sox -n -r 44100 -c 2 silence.wav trim 0.0 20.0
This generates a 20 sec empty WAV file. After that you can mix the empty file with other audio files.
sox -m silence.wav "|sox sound1.mp3 -p pad 0" "|sox sound2.mp3 -p pad 2" out.wav
The final audio file has a duration of 20 seconds and plays sound1.mp3 right at the beginning and sound2.mp3 after 2 seconds.
To combine the sequence of images with the audio file we can use FFmpeg.
ffmpeg -i video_%05d.png -i out.wav -r 25 out.mp4
See this question on adding a single audio input with some offset. The -itsoffset bug mentioned there is still open, but see users' comments for some cases in which it does work.
If it works in your case, that would be ideal:
ffmpeg -i in%d.jpg -itsoffset 10 -i audio1.mp3 -itsoffset 15 -i audio2.mp3 out.mpg
If not, you should be able to combine all the audio files with sox, overlaying or inserting silence to produce the correct offsets and then use that as input to FFmpeg. Not as convenient, but guaranteed to work.
One approach I can think of is to create your audio file for the whole duration of the video first and then mux the audio with the video file
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)