video-gadgets

Various scripts and configurations for FFMPEG, TSDuck and other video processing tools.

• enc_profile: shortcuts for popular encoding profiles for ffmpeg
• gif_encode: convert video files to GIF
• hdbars: send test pattern to a file or streaming destination

Installation

RPM:

sudo rpm -ivh \
    https://github.com/m1tk4/video-gadgets/releases/download/v1.2.0/video-gadgets-1.2.0.noarch.rpm

DEB:

curl -sLO \
    https://github.com/m1tk4/video-gadgets/releases/download/v1.2.0/video-gadgets_1.2.0_all.deb \ 
    && sudo dpkg -i video-gadgets_1.2.0_all.deb 

Any other Linux:

cd /; \
sudo curl -L \
    https://github.com/m1tk4/video-gadgets/releases/download/v1.2.0/hdbars \
    | tar xvzf

gif_encode

Scales and encodes a source video file into .GIF, extracting the palette from the source file first.

Sample:

$ gif_encode --width 640 --fps 10 source.mkv dest.gif

hdbars

Produces a video test pattern with

• HD SMPTE Bars,
• hostname (or custom text header)
• local time,
• timecode,
• custom logo (optional),
• an audible beep every 1 second and
• an animation with synchronized moving indicator:

vgp

Outputs one of the predefined FFMPEG encoding profiles - for use with FFMPEG transcoding tasks.

Use in ffmpeg commands:

ffmpeg -i myfile.mov `vgp twitch` -f flv rtpm://twitch.com/something
ffmpeg -i myfile.mov `vgp fullscreen`

List available profiles:

$ vgp --list
 
Available encoding profiles:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
copy:          Copy (pass-through)
default:       Default (x264:veryfast/aac@128k)
fullscreen:    Local screen playback
raw:           Raw
testpattern:   Test patterns (x264:veryfast/aac@24k)
twitch:        Twitch (x264:veryfast@3M/aac@160k)
window:        Local screen playback
wowza:         Wowza (x264:medium@1mbps/aac@128k)
youtube:       Youtube (x264:veryfast@3M/aac@128k)

You can add custom profiles by editing / adding the following files:

• /etc/vg_profile.conf
• ./vg_profile.conf
• ./*.vg_profile.conf
• ~/.vg_profile.conf

See vg_profile.conf for syntax samples.