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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 06:23:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   It's too goddamn early in the morning (1:22pm) to deal with ffmpeg

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 06:58:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Matheo_bis

     @Matheo_bis been there, done that, already made the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqepuu5O38o

   • Matheo_bis (matheo_bis@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 06:58:02 JST Matheo_bis

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     @foone ffmpreg

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 06:58:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my project last night involved concatting about 3000 video files together. Unsurprisingly, something went wrong, and I ended up with a 5 hour file (the clips added together are only 2hr30min) and it stops being playable after an hour

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:00:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     now, ffmpeg has three ways to combine video files together.
     In order of increasing speed and decreasing flexibility, they are:
     1. concat
     2. concat
     3. concat

     now all three concats work very differently and are invoked differently. (Never use #3 on mp4 files, it will corrupt them!)

   • Denis Warburton (artandtechnic@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:01:08 JST Denis Warburton

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     @foone ffmpeg: the joke that won’t stop giving

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:01:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my problem was that I was using concat when I should probably just use concat instead. the only problem is that concat (not concat) requires a filter-complex invocation that may literally involve sacred geometry

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:02:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and the complexity scales with how many files you're adding.
     it's like 7-8 characters with 2, 64 characters with 3, and I have 3490 files to concat

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:04:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the fundamental problem, I think, is that I have 3487 files in one consistent format, and 3 that are differently formatted.

     concat can handle that, but concat (which I was using) can't. (and concat? don't get me started)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:05:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     so I either need to switch to using concat only, or convert those files so that they can all use the same format and thus be concatted with concat (but not concat, because that will corrupt mp4 files)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:08:00 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     actually now that I'm looking at this and it's not 4am, the first concat might not be that hard, assuming ffmpeg (and windows) don't have a problem with me writing, uh, 55kb arguments? not counting the other arguments, which'll add up to another 87kb

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:09:19 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     realistically I probably won't do it this way.

     I'll batch it up. Merge a hundred videos into one lossless master, then merge one lossless master with 100 more videos into lossless master #2, then repeat until I run out of videos

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:10:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     but I'm probably going to reencode those 3 Weird Videos anyway just so I have more control over how they're added.
     one of them is 4:3, the rest are 16:9: clearly I should handle that myself and not just let ffmpeg pick some silly default for merging 4:3 content into a 16:9 stream

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:13:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • gudenau

     @gudenau I think that's only for concat, not concat, which I'm using

   • gudenau (gudenau@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:13:37 JST gudenau

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     @foone You can provide arguments via files IIRC.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:40:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     ugh. I've written down the incantation to get lossless huffyuv but I wrote it down on my twitter, which google seems to no longer index.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:41:34 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     probably a good sign I should get rid of that and archive it elsewhere

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 07:44:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay mass-converting them all to the same format.
     all 3490 files. this'll take a while

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 10:24:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Josh

     @joshuata thankfully they were already on a different computer so I wasn't tempted

   • Josh (joshuata@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 10:24:07 JST Josh

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     @foone I’m just waiting for you to post “remember not to do this on a laptop” in an hour like you have had to every week

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 10:24:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Volo mori

     @TemplailloAhi yes. thanks

   • Volo mori (templailloahi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 10:24:38 JST Volo mori

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     @foone Is it this one? https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1261463170725507073

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 17:35:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • xinit ☕

     @xinit happens to the best of us

   • xinit ☕ (xinit@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Saturday, 23-Nov-2024 17:35:41 JST xinit ☕

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     @foone I meant to use concat, but I used concat. Damn it.