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Video Converter

Video Converter
Developed by Dobar Kod, Released May 8, 2011

A python module for video conversion, inspection and thumbnail generation, built on top of ffmpeg

Python

Tags: converter , encoder , ffmpeg , video

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Video Converter uses the FFmpeg multimedia framework for actual file processing, and adds an easy-to-use API for probing and converting media files on top of it.

Supported codecs and formats:

  • source: any format or codec that's supported by ffmpeg
  • target formats: Ogg, AVI, Matroska, WebM, FLV, Mov, MP4, MPEG-TS
  • target video codecs: Theora, H.264/AVC, DivX, VP8, H.263, Flv, MPEG-1, MPEG-2.
  • target audio codecs: Vorbis, AAC, MP3, MP2

Features:

  • Pythonic, clean, extensible code
  • extensive unit tests
  • tested on Python version 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
  • uses ffmpeg utilities, doesn't need to be linked against ffmpeg library itself

Module documentation is available here.

This module uses the ffmpeg utilities to do the actual media processing, and so requires them to be installed on the system (either system-wide, or to a custom location). Support for a particular format/codec depends on the underlying ffmpeg utilities being compiled with support for it.

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Quick Start

Import the module and create the Converter object:

>>> from converter import Converter
>>> c = Converter()

Examine video file:

>>> info = c.probe('test1.ogg')
>>> info.format.format
'ogg'
>>> info.format.duration
33.0
>>> info.video.codec
'theora'
>>> info.audio.codec
'vorbis'
>>> info.video.video_width
720
>>> info.video.video_height
400

Resize the video:

>>> conv = c.convert('test1.ogg', '/tmp/output.ogg', {
        'format': 'ogg',
        'video': {
                    'codec': 'theora',
                    'width': 160,
                    'height': 120,
                    'fps': 15,
                    'bitrate': 300 },
        'audio': {
                    'codec': 'vorbis',
                    'channels': 1,
                    'bitrate': 32 }  })

>>> for timecode in conv:
        pass

Extract a thumbnail from the frame 10 seconds in the video:

>>> c.thumbnail('test1.ogg', 10, '/tmp/shot.png')
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User Reviews

  • Philip Kahn 6 months ago
    It looks solid, but all the paths are hard-coded for Linux and it doesn't play nice with Windows.
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