Looking for a few programs

Seksa

Hi folks

Occasionally you want to

get some info on a group of files
make nice stills before uploading a new torrent.

That's what I need:

a program that will tell you whether a certain DVD is in PAL or NTSC format
a program that will tell you the resolution and bits per pixel for images
a program that will tell you the resolution and used audio / video codecs of a film
a program that will allow you to make stills of a whole film or parts thereof AND will let you choose the interval between individual shots

Of course, one program per line, not one that can do all of this.

All programs should be cli (command line interface) programs, if possible for Linux / Unix / Cygwin, so that I can, for example, do something like
find -name '*.jpg' -exec get_info {} > filesizes ;
with get_info being the program to list pic resolution, bpp etc.

Or for screen shots something like
mk_stills -r4 -w300 -s0:30 -e1:20 i:120 someflic.avi > someflic.info
with mk_stills being the snapshot program, resulting in a contact sheet with 4 rows of pics 300 pixels wide, going from 0:30 hrs to 1:20 hrs with one pic every 2 minutes. I would also be quite content with a program that only provides a lot of subsequently numbered pictures, for I these can be concatenated / put on one page with imagemagick.

Lastly: I often see contact sheets which seem to be made with mediaplayer classic. How do I do that?

Thanks for any input.

Seksa

uwsguy102

@Seksa:

Lastly: I often see contact sheets which seem to be made with mediaplayer classic. How do I do that?

This is the only one I can help you with (well, and the stills…)

Under 'File' in MPC, there's an option for 'Save Thumbnails'. You can pick between 1 and 8 columns and rows, and choose the image width as well. I usually use 4 columns by 4 rows with 1024 pixel width and it seems to be fine.

Also in 'File', you can make screen stills of whatever scene you have on pause. Just choose 'Save Image' and choose where to download the image. In fact, my avatar is a screen shot of 'Eureka'. If you go to my main profile you can see the image in its full glory.

Hope that helps a bit. The rest of it, unfortunately, is above my paygrade.

Seksa

감사합니다 - Thank you

Seksa

Popper

The first 3 things can be done with MediaInfo : hXXp://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en

mgr

let me give some hints too:

resolution and codecs of a video: GSpot (freeware) hxxp://www.headbands.com/gspot/

contact sheets and stills of a video: ImageGrabber - 3 versions available in our download section (all freeware)

alas all are GUI programs for windows

mikejc01

this prog is great for making thumbnail shots I use it all the time . its called thumbnail maker

Mike

hXXp://www.suu-design.com/projects.html#VTM

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smithdtn

All you want to do is able to with MPC-HC.
…In the case of playing a part of vids like VTS_01_1.VOB, not VIDEO_TS.IFO/iso. $:-\$