Re: Bulk import of AVI files

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> doh-- I should have looked for this long time ago, but I just assumed when
> the day came I would find it in /usr/share/kino/scripts/import -- and the
> day just came
>
> I don't see any 'melt' script -- where should I find this?

melt is a package in the u repos.  or get trunk from:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sunab/sunab2/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sunab/sunab2/ubuntu jaunty main

>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> a thousand thanks! I will test it out on my next batch of imports.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Dan Dennedy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Gary Lawrence Murphy <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > This is a re-asking of an earlier question that may have just been
>>> > overlooked:
>>> >
>>> > Is it possible to do a mass import of several dozen AVI files without
>>> > the
>>> > prompt for confirming the conversion on each file?  I need to take
>>> > dozens of
>>> > files from my webcam and convert them to kino-compatible dv in a batch
>>> > from
>>> > the command line; as it is, I can run "kino *.avi" from the command
>>> > line,
>>> > but I then have to accept the conversion prompt, wait for each to
>>> > import,
>>> > and then answer the same prompt for each subsequent clip.  It takes
>>> > quite a
>>> > while.
>>> >
>>> > looking at the import scripts, I figure there must be a way to do this
>>> > outside of Kino, but so far I haven't been able to guess the options
>>> > incantation to make it work.
>>>
>>> for file in *.avi; do melt -profile dv_ntsc $file -consumer
>>> avformat:${file}.dv pix_fmt=yuv411p; done
>>>
>>> After "-profile," use as needed: dv_ntsc, dv_ntsc_wide, dv_pal, or
>>> dv_pal_wide.
>>> For dv_pal and dv_pal_wide, remove the "pix_fmt=yuv411p".
>>>
>>> --
>>> +-DRD-+
>>
>
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