removed uuid dependency

examples/mergeVideos.js

@@ -7,17 +7,21 @@ var ffmpeg = require('../index');
  ffmpeg -i source.mp4 -qscale:v 1 intermediate2.mpg
  ffmpeg -i concat:"intermediate1.mpg|intermediate2.mpg" -c copy intermediate_all.mpg
  ffmpeg -i intermediate_all.mpg -qscale:v 2 output.mp4
+
+ Create temporary .mpg files for each video and deletes them after merge is completed.
+ These files are created by filename pattern like [videoFilename.ext].temp.mpg [outputFilename.ext].temp.merged.mp4
  */
 
 var firstFile = "title.mp4";
-var secondFile = "source.mp4"
-var outPath = "out.mp4"
-var tempFolderPath = "myTempFolder/"; // requires a temp folder to store intermediate videos, deletes them after merge is completed.
+var secondFile = "source.mp4";
+var thirdFile = "third.mov";
+var outPath = "out.mp4";
 
 var proc = new ffmpeg({source:firstFile,nolog:true})
     .mergeAdd(secondFile)
-    //.mergeAdd(thirdFile)
+    .mergeAdd(thirdFile)
     //.mergeAdd(fourthFile)
-    .mergeToFile(outPath,tempFolderPath,function(){
-        console.log('files has been merged succesfully');
-    });
+    //.mergeAdd(...)
+    .mergeToFile(outPath,function(){
+        console.log('files have been merged successfully');
+    });

lib/processor.js

@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ var fs       = require('fs'),
     os       = require('os').platform(),
     exec     = require('child_process').exec,
     spawn    = require('child_process').spawn,
-    Registry = require('./registry'),
-    uuid = require('node-uuid'),
+    Registry = require('./registry');
 
 exports = module.exports = function Processor(command) {
   // constant for timeout checks
@@ -106,7 +105,7 @@ exports = module.exports = function Processor(command) {
     });
   };
 
-  this.mergeToFile = function(targetfile,tempFolderPath,callback){
+  this.mergeToFile = function(targetfile,callback){
     this.options.outputfile = targetfile;
     var self = this;
     var options = this.options;
@@ -118,26 +117,24 @@ exports = module.exports = function Processor(command) {
 
     // creates intermediate copies of each video.
     var makeIntermediateFile = function(_mergeSource,_callback){
-        var fname =  uuid.v1()+".mpg";
-        var fullP = self.escapedPath(path.join(tempFolderPath, fname), true);
+        var fname =  _mergeSource+".temp.mpg";
         var command = [
             self.ffmpegPath,
             [
                 '-i', _mergeSource,
                 '-qscale:v',1,
-                fullP
+                fname
             ].join(' ')
         ];
         exec(command.join(' '),function(err, stdout, stderr) {
             if(err)throw err;
-            _callback(fullP);
+            _callback(fname);
         });
     };
 
     // concat all created intermediate copies
-    var concatIntermediates = function(intermediatesList,_callback){
-        var fname =  uuid.v1()+".mpg";
-        var fullP = self.escapedPath(path.join(tempFolderPath, fname), true);
+    var concatIntermediates = function(target,intermediatesList,_callback){
+        var fname =  target+".temp.merged.mpg";
 
         // unescape paths
         for(var i=0; i<intermediatesList.length; i++){
@@ -150,12 +147,12 @@ exports = module.exports = function Processor(command) {
                 '-loglevel','panic', //Generetes too much muxing warnings and fills default buffer of exec. This is to ignore them.
                 '-i', 'concat:"'+intermediatesList.join("|")+'"',
                 '-c',"copy",
-                fullP
+                fname
             ].join(' ')
         ];
         exec(command.join(' '), function(err, stdout, stderr) {
             if(err)throw err;
-            _callback(fullP);
+            _callback(fname);
         });
     };
 
@@ -203,7 +200,7 @@ exports = module.exports = function Processor(command) {
         })
     },function(err){
         if(err)throw err;
-        concatIntermediates(intermediateFiles,function(concatResult){
+        concatIntermediates(targetfile,intermediateFiles,function(concatResult){
             if(!concatResult)throw new Error("Invalid concat result file");
             quantizeConcat(concatResult,intermediateFiles.length,function(){
                 intermediateFiles.push(concatResult); // add concatResult to intermediates list so it can be deleted too.

package.json

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   },
   "repository": "git://github.com/schaermu/node-fluent-ffmpeg.git",
   "devDependencies": { "mocha": "latest", "should": "latest" },
-  "dependencies": { "winston": ">=0.5.10","node-uuid":"1.4.0" },
+  "dependencies": { "winston": ">=0.5.10" },
   "engines" : { "node" : ">=0.5.0" },
   "main": "index",
   "scripts": {