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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android
I would suggest using the command line and ffmpeg as in:
ffmpeg -ss start_time -i input_file .ext -t duration -vcodec copy -acodec copy output_file .ext
.ext must be a supported video type and the ...
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Video player with backward frame by frame stepping for Linux
Development of mplayer has stopped (edit: resumed) and you should consider replacing it with mpv which supports this feature. Framestep forward with . and backwards with ,.
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What program will convert video frames to jpegs?
I'd recommend
ffmpeg
for this (free, open source, cross-platform).
Example:
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -qscale:v 2 output_%03d.jpg
Will create one output_<framenumber>.jpg JPEG image (with quality ...
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How to recover data from old DVDs?
If you have a Linux machine available (if not, there are several Live distributions you could boot from CD/DVD or USB-stick), you might wish to take a look at DDRescue. That's a command-line tool ...
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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android
What you're looking for is AviDemux.
AviDemux is an open-source GUI video processing software made in Linux which also has releases for Windows (x86 and x64), it also has a command-line version ...
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Simple Video Editor for Windows
I would check out Filmora by WonderShare. It has a lot of features and still easy to use. It is able to run on Windows 7 and runs quickly for what it does. It can crop videos, mesh them together, and ...
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Software to calculate the speed of objects in videos
Tracker is an excellent software which allows you to do this. Once you have selected a reference distance, the software will automatically generate the velocity and acceleration tables for you. It is ...
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Freeware DVD to MP4 converter
I have used Handbrake for this.
It is open source and available for Windows, Mac and Linux.
You can set it to transcode the subtitles and / or select sound tracks if these are available on the DVD.
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Video player with backward frame by frame stepping for Linux
avidemux can do this. It's in rpmfusion free for Fedora and there's a PPA for Ubuntu.
It supports most codecs and containers, and can step forward/back frame by frame, and properly switch between ...
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Freeware video editing software
A very powerful one DaVinci Resolve Free edition. This one needs a modern graphics card.
A really interesting option is HitFilm express.
It is not only an editor but also a compositor.
Avid is also ...
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Audio editing CLI application that can fuse multiple wav files into a new one?
If you really would like to save some effort, install python, use pip install pydub to add pydub and then use os.walk something like:
import os
from pydub import AudioSegment
OUTNAME = "Mixed.wav"
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Video player that doesn't stop playing when screen turns off
VLC for Android
Audio files are played even when you lock the device. Video files are paused, however, you can play a video file as an audio file, so that you retain the former behavior. Likewise, ...
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Filter motion in video file (surveillance video)
https://github.com/Breakthrough/DVR-Scan
DVR-Scan is a cross-platform command-line (CLI) application that
automatically detects motion events in video files (e.g. security
camera footage). In ...
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What program will convert video frames to jpegs?
Free Studio features a tool called Free Video To JPG Converter (which you can alternatively download as a stand-alone tool). This tool can create a sequence of JPEGs from videos in various formats. ...
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How to recover data from old DVDs?
It may well be that you cannot recover 100% of your data.
For videos, that might be acceptable, and you might only see a few visual glitches, if they are even visible. For things like spread sheets ...
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Audio editing CLI application that can fuse multiple wav files into a new one?
You can use FFmpeg:
Free and open-source
Runs on Windows, OS X, Linux, Android
Is CLI so you can batch
Can overlay two audio files, e.g. ffmpeg -i input1.mp3 -i input2.mp3 -filter_complex amerge -c:a ...
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YouTube video to text?
These 3 solutions took me like 30 sec to find by googling. Please do your due diligence and put a minimum of effort into it before asking your question here. There appear to be many more of thoose ...
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Media player on Linux
VLC is the ultimate media player.
Install the Ubuntu default repository version:
sudo apt install vlc
Install the latest version (has Blu-ray support):
sudo snap install vlc
How to make a ...
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Video player that doesn't stop playing when screen turns off
MX Player
This player has a 'Background play' option (under 'Player' in the settings) that does exactly what you want. I just tested it on my Lenovo Yoga 10 HD+, it kept playing the audio after I hit ...
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Free, lightweight, all-in-one, audio and video format converter
Xmedia Recode
General
Freeware
Easy to use
Portable version available (11 MB small)
Uses ffmpeg (among others)
Windows only
Functions
Video / Audio Conversion: XMedia recode can convert ...
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What is a screen recorder with mouse movement and can save the recording as video?
For Windows now I using ShareX. Free Open Source screenshot and screencast recording App.
It also contain simple image editind and annotation and automatic uploader to image hosting, but I not using ...
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Software to create automatic subtitles (OS X)
This Python 2 script use Google Web Speech API and FFmpeg to generate subtitles: https://github.com/agermanidis/autosub
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Converter that converts videos into a custom video format
ffmpeg should be able to do this.
Refer to this answer on SO for details
That answer references the command line, but ffmpeg is also available as a library if it's more convenient to you.
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I am looking for an HTML5 video player
Bootstrap has this built in
(see the documentation)
For local video files:
<div align="center" class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9">
<video autoplay loop ...
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Free alternative to SubtitlesApp for Windows
Sublight is a powerful free software to manage subtitles that comes with a modern interface and ribbon menu. Not only it can search and download subtitles from multiple sources, Sublight can also edit,...
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Free Video maker that can animate pictures
You can do both in Blender - it has a bit of a learning curve but:
Insert Image into video by using the video as the texture for one object and move moving another - Yes in 3D Demo of Video texture ...
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Looking for a software to shrink 12 hour long video to 5 minutes video
You should be able to use ffmpeg for this with the framestep filter.
Free
Cross Platform
Supports most video types
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Simple program to cut videos without ANY loss of quality for Windows, Linux or Android
I would like to complete the other answers by referring this solution of mine on another thread that seems to solve the audio sync and beginning of frames frozen issues for ffmpeg :
The key frame ...
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Free (libre) video hosting platform
Peertube https://joinpeertube.org is a free (no charge and libre) open source software developped by the Framasoft Association in France (framasoft.org). You can install it to run your own server and ...
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Video capture software that will record long videos (10+ hours)
There is a very high quality free open source project called Open Broadcaster Software (OBS).
In the Classic version there is a plugin which stops the recording and saves it and then starts ...
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