Re: [Mlt-devel] auto split output into 1 hour files

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Dan Dennedy <da...@de...> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Carl Karsten <ca...@pe...> wrote:
>> I am encoding PyCon vids - things are going great. 29,516 views in the
>> first 3 days!
>>
>> I have about 30 3 hour tutorials to deal with.  Each one is a set of
>> .dv files, some of them about 1.5 hours long.   The internets
>> currently doesn't deal with videos that long - players and policies
>> get cranky, so I want to split them into 1 hour chunks.  My code to
>> create a .mlt file seems ilke it would be a good place to do this, but
>> looking at it makes me think otherwise.  it just doesn't fit.
>>
>> What I am hoping for is a melt command line parameter to output
>> foo-1.dv, foo2.dv... foo-n.dv where each is an hour long.
>>
>> Is there anything like this?
>
> Probably not exactly how you are thinking about it, but think about it
> terms of virtual clips:
>
> $ melt -profile dv_ntsc foo.dv in=X out=Y -consumer xml:foo-1.mlt
>
> You must use the correct profile. Then, use the .mlt files instead of
> the .dv files as clips in your existing XML-based workflow. You can
> verify this by simply playing the .mlt with melt - supply the correct
> profile please. Currently, the chosen profile is not serialized into
> the XML, but that is planned soon. In fact, a good way to prototype
> the XML is to incrementally prototype using melt command line options
> and then consume with xml.
>


perfect.  thanks a bunch.



-- 
Carl K