[MEncoder-users] Display filename

[Peter]

This is interesting, actually. I found two key bits of info. First, the command 
to add subtitles in MEncoder:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=300249
Second, the format of a subtitle file:
http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/subtitles/srt.html

I had a quick play with this; at first, I got an error saying that -vop was 
removed, and I should use -vf; I did the switch, and it worked.

I think it would be easy enough, if you're good with Python, to make a .srt file 
for each sign video, and then get MEncoder to recode it with the subtitles in. 
There's another interesting thing: I tested what happened with my 5 second test 
video, if I put in the .srt file that the text was valid for 10 seconds... I got 
a 5 second output file. So it seems that you can ask for 10 seconds in every 
file, without worrying what the actual length of your sign is.

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Patrick wrote:
> Thanks Peter
> 
> I have actually looked into this a bit. I can add subtitles, thanks to
> GTK Subtitle Editor (or generic text editor) but these 5K videos are
> slightly different lengths. I am worried that the filename would go out
> of sink with the correct video.
> 
> Is it possible to specify a video input length? For instance if all of
> these videos are mixtures of 3, 4 and 5 second videos, could I specify
> that each will be 6 seconds? I am not worried if there is a little blank
> space at the end.
> 
> If each video was the same length then as per your suggestion I could
> write a batch script to auto-increment the subtitle file time line and
> add the file name. I can manage this in Python.
> 
> Thanks again for taking the time to post Peter.
> 
> -Patrick
> 
> 
> Peter wrote:
>> Patrick wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi Everyone
>>>
>>> This is my first post.
>>>
>>> I want to learn sign language and teach it to my Son. I have >5000 short
>>> videos of sign language signs. All the file names describe the sign
>>> depicted in the video. I can use mencoder to create a single video of
>>> them but I would like to display the file name in the process. I know
>>> that I can use capital "I" while the individual videos are running but
>>> can I enter something equivalent to this at the command line so that
>>> they will be encoded into a single video?
>>>
>>>     
>> Hey, I wonder if you could write a batch/script to create a subtitle file for 
>> each video containing the filename, and then tell MEncoder to hard-code (don't 
>> know the proper term) the subtitle stream into the output. Should be possible.
>>
>> I could look into this, but won't bother unless you don't get an answer.
>>
>>   
> 
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