Month: November 2007

Script: video identification (Bash)

This script displays mplayer's information/identification lines of a multimedia file. Nowadays I prefer to use an undocumented feature of vcs (see below) #!/bin/bash # This script displays mplayer's information/identification lines of a multimedia file # Put in the public domain. <http://w.corvera.eu/2007/11/shell-vidid/> vididf() { mplayer -identify -frames 0 -ao null -vo null "$1" 2>/dev/null | grep […]

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VCS update 2007-11-08: 1.0.10 released

New version released wth a bugfix and a couple new features: allow disabling timestamps and/or shadows. See the changelog below. I've also published a bit of information on the future of VCS and comments would be very welcome (in short, most probably, I'll be rewriting it in a different language than bash). Finally, I'm moving […]

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VCS OOP Rewrite?

Note: VCS stands for Video Contact Sheet *NIX, visit http://p.outlyer.net/vcs/ for details. Abstract I'm considering an alternative language in which to rewrite VCS. It must support OOP well enough and be relatively common-place. Current candidates are Java, Python and PHP5. Comments/suggestions/preferences are welcome, either here or by mail (outlyer@gmail.com) (but leave alone language hatred/fandom!). VCS […]

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