Re: super small

Carl Karsten wrote:
> I have about 1100 .dv files totaling 3tb.  I pretty much have no clue 
> what each file is, other than it was recorded at US PyCon 08.  There 
> are 10 or so people that will help, so it seems the first step is to 
> identify them all.
>
> This plan is a little too labor intensive: buy 30 1t external drives, 
> copy data, ship drives to people.  mainly because "copy data" means 
> "plug in drive, start copy, check back in a few hours, repeat 30 
> times" which means I will be doing this dance for a week or something.
>
> So I am considering this:  encode the hell out of them into something 
> barley recognizable, throw it on my cable modem web server, and let 
> these people pull them down, view enough to figure out what it is, log 
> it to a database.
>
> I think things can further be helped by only grabbing the first 5 or 
> 10 min of each file (some files are 30 min, some are 6 hours.)
>
> I might even be able to figure out how to hook up a web page that will 
> let the person select a file and time, and give them a full res image 
> file of that frame.  most talks start with the talk title projected on 
> the screen, and being able to read that might be helpful.
>
> For the "encode the hell out of them" part, any suggestions on what 
> format/options I should try?
How about exporting some frames instead of converting the videos? The 
first few frames should catch the talk title.

nice -n 19 transcode -q 0 -o $FIL.img -y im -F png -x ffmpeg,null -i 
$DIR/$FIL.dv -c \
0:00:00-0:00:00.1,0:00:10-0:00:10.1,0:00:20-0:00:20.1,0:00:30-0:00:30.1,0:00:40-0:00:40.1,0:00:50-0:00:50.1,\
0:01:00-0:01:00.1,0:01:10-0:01:10.1,0:01:20-0:01:20.1,0:01:30-0:01:30.1,0:01:40-0:01:40.1,0:01:50-0:01:50.1,\
0:02:00-0:02:00.1,0:02:10-0:02:10.1,0:02:20-0:02:20.1,0:02:30-0:02:30.1,0:02:40-0:02:40.1,0:02:50-0:02:50.1 
2> /dev/null

Dave