Video Contact Sheet *NIX
Video Contact Sheet *NIX (vcs for short) is a script that creates a contact sheet (preview) from videos by taking still captures distributed over the length of the video. The output image contains useful information on the video such as codecs, file size, screen size, frame rate, and length. It requires MPlayer, ImageMagick (convert and montage), bc, and ffmpeg. Although it's supposed to work on POSIX systems, testing has so far only been done on Linux.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Graphics Conversion Video Conversion |
|---|---|
| Licenses | LGPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux FreeBSD |
| Implementation | Unix Shell bash |
Recent releases
- 10 Apr 2009 21:09
Changes: Preliminary support for operating systems other than Linux (especially FreeBSD). This release will not fail if tput fails to set the console color. This release will check for requirements early, and shouldn't die silently.
- 11 Mar 2009 23:54
Changes: Experimental support for DVDs (-V). JPEG 2000 output format (-j2). Polaroid mode has been renamed to photos mode, and polaroid and polaroidframe modes have been introduced. There are slight adjustments in the timestamp size based on capture size. There is better detection of video frame rate (no more 1.000 FPS, in theory) and audio channels number by using ffmpeg. Overlap mode putting all images on the same location (possibly only with newer versions of ImageMagick) has been fixed.
- 16 Apr 2008 10:30
Changes: 0ms timestamps have been corrected (seconds were being used as ms too). The long-disabled black border after highlights has been re-added. A minimum length to use the end offset has been added. The regression on highlights from the last version has been fixed (extra padding was being added by IM automatically).
- 08 Apr 2008 13:53
Changes: Deriving timecodes from number of captures by default has been corrected. There is a workaround for MPlayer's strange behaviour with some videos/systems, better support for older versions of bash, some suport for busybox's du, and better alignment for extended set. FOURCC for VC-1 has been added.
- 08 Nov 2007 09:11
Changes: An aspect guessing bug was corrected: this would fail if width was standard but height was not. Timestamps may be explicitly disabled. Shadows may be explicitly disabled. HD resolution guessed aspect ratio was added (and this defaults to 16/9).
