Using a movie file

[Charles Belcher]

Thanks Gil, that explains it.  I wish the manual would have included the quotes around the file name.  I just copied the format in the manual and didn't know any better.

Beware; the newbies are coming.

Charles

[gerry]

hello Charles,

That's why I asked for a screen print as quite often the issue is quite simple. Its not feasible for the xl manual to cover every combination , else it then become unreadable.

ffmpeg has a lot of documentation online on the website.

Having said that I will update the manual  to add the quotes..

[sean]

The problem of passing file names with spaces is why i never create a file with a space, i use underscores. Old habit from decades ago.

ffmpeg -i "2015 Stars.mp4"
ffmpeg -i "2015_Stars.mp4"
ffmpeg -i 2015_Stars.mp4

all will work without errors. Note the last entry doesn't need quotes

If you have spaces, always wrap with quotes. It is a standard thing in DOS cmd windows, but most people are not typing CMD commands.

sorry that it was confusing.

[Charles Belcher]

Sean and all,

Sorry to have wasted everyone's time today, but I just don't know these things.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Charles

[sean]

Charles; my philosophy is if it is confusing to the users, we have not documented it enough. There is a limit to how much we can try and cover (current document is 150 pages).

You bringing this up is great! I never ran into this because i dont use spaces in file names. We have now highlighted a fact that will probably help others. Thanks for being a good tester.

and there is nothing to be sorry for

thanks
sean

[gerry]

I agree with Sean,

You read the manual (   ) and you tried and it did not work . But hopefully you are up and running now !

[Charles Belcher]

I agree with Sean,

You read the manual (   ) and you tried and it did not work . But hopefully you are up and running now !

Gerry,

Yep, up and running and it is great.  I now also have a cheat sheet of other ffmpeg command scripts I found on the internet to do all sorts of things, like make an mp3 from an mp4, turning a group of images into a movie (without having to open power director), converting all my wav files into mp3 files, etc. 

And it saves so much time.  This journey down xLights Lane is going to be fun!

Charles

[uzelessknowledge]

Thank you all for this post. I was able to convert a piece of video. This was after spending about an hour trying to figure out how to use ffmpeg on the Mac. I found some sites that said how to install it, but since I'm used to using applications I had no idea what to do after installed.
Maybe a short section on how to install and then access would be usefull.

Now I can't wait to get my P10's and see what I can do. #excited

[Gilrock]

Yeah pretty soon our manual will give you help with installing operating systems and guidance for PC purchases.  We are gonna be a one stop shop.

[gerry]

Thank you all for this post. I was able to convert a piece of video. This was after spending about an hour trying to figure out how to use ffmpeg on the Mac. I found some sites that said how to install it, but since I'm used to using applications I had no idea what to do after installed.

Maybe a short section on how to install and then access would be usefull.

If you are able to either do a small writeup of what you did (or send me the links that u used) , I can include in the manual. I don't have a MAC , so wont be able to validate the steps.
 

[kevinp]

I'd be interested in the Mac side of this too.  I poked around a bit but wasn't able to wrap my brain around it at the time.

[uzelessknowledge]

Sure thing. I'd love to contribute and help.


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[uzelessknowledge]

Ok, I took my other Mac and went through the process since it didn't have ffmpeg on it yet. I documented what I did along the way. Hope this helps. Let me know if I need to clarify anything.

[kevinp]

Ok, I took my other Mac and went through the process since it didn't have ffmpeg on it yet. I documented what I did along the way. Hope this helps. Let me know if I need to clarify anything.

This is great information!  I'll give your instructions a whirl and see if it works for me.  Not too sure when I'll get around to it though as I have a lot going on in the next two weeks and not much time to sequence right now.

Thanks for doing this and I'm sure it will make its way into the user manual for us fellow Mac users.  We'll see if Steve, Gerry or I beat one another to placing it in the manual.

[drlucas]

The -r 20 command for me seems to be acting strange in v4 of xlights. I have to set the one variable in picture mode to be 1.5 regardless of if I use the 20 frame per second or leave that command option off all together. 

Not sure  if anyone else experienced this or not.


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