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PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:52 pm  Post subject: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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Is there a tool for linux that can take screens from an mkv from the command line?

I want to be able to do it from a terminal, even if I don't have a windowed environment.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 2:17 pm  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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Do you have VLC setup? This may work: http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?p=66942#p66942


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PostPosted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 3:04 pm  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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No such luck:

jbriggs@jbriggs-media:~/Downloads/complete/Movies/Monsters.2010.720p.HDTV.DD5.1.x264-HDGiRL$ ll
total 4584188
-rw-r--r-- 1 jbriggs jbriggs 4694204183 2010-11-04 03:05 Monsters.2010.720p.HDTV.x264-HDGiRL.mkv
jbriggs@jbriggs-media:~/Downloads/complete/Movies/Monsters.2010.720p.HDTV.DD5.1.x264-HDGiRL$ cd ^C
jbriggs@jbriggs-media:~/Downloads/complete/Movies/Monsters.2010.720p.HDTV.DD5.1.x264-HDGiRL$ locate^C
jbriggs@jbriggs-media:~/Downloads/complete/Movies/Monsters.2010.720p.HDTV.DD5.1.x264-HDGiRL$ vlc --snapshot-prefix img --snapshot-format png --stop-time=10 --snapshot-path `pwd` --no-snapshot-preview Monsters.2010.720p.HDTV.x264-HDGiRL.mkv
VLC media player 1.0.6 Goldeneye
[0x9cb6db0] inhibit interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.

[0x9cb6db0] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x9c1e148] main libvlc error: interface "inhibit,none" initialization failed
[0x9cb1788] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[0x9c1e148] main libvlc error: interface "globalhotkeys,none" initialization failed
[0x9c1e148] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
[0x9cb85b8] qt4 interface error: Could not connect to X server
[0x9cb85b8] skins2 interface error: Cannot open display
[0x9cb85b8] skins2 interface error: cannot initialize OSFactory
Remote control interface initialized. Type `help' for help.
m_el[mi_level] == NULL
arrrrrrrrrrrrrg Up cannot escape itself
[0x9ce67e0] a52 decoder: A/52 channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:384000
[0x9d21068] pulse audio output: No. of Audio Channels: 6
[0x9d9e5d0] xvideo video output error: cannot open display
[0x9d9e5d0] x11 video output error: cannot open display
[0x9d9e5d0] fb video output error: cannot get terminal mode (Invalid argument)
[0x9e76b00] glx generic error: cannot open display



^C[0x9ccf510] signals interface error: Caught Interrupt signal, exiting...
status change: ( stop state: 0 )
status change: ( quit )


it plays the film in ASCII though :lol: The commandline switches in that thread aren't in VLC anymore

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:06 pm  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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looks like linux is da shit! :lol:

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PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:05 pm  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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mplayer -ss 60 -vo png:z=9 -ao null -sstep 60 $videofile # Generates a screenshot starting 1 minute into the file, and at every minute after that until the end-of-file.

mplayer -ss 1:00:00 -vo png:z=9 -ao null -frames 5 -sstep 10 $videofile # Generates a screenshot staring at 1 hour, and 4 more every 10 seconds after that.


And I think you have asked this question a few times already! :lol:


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:20 pm  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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don't think i have, i've asked how to take random screens programatically before though.

thanks badger

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:56 pm  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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spudthedestroyer wrote:
i've asked how to take random screens programatically before though


I remember it, because that's when I learned that you can use MPlayer to make screenshots from the commandline. :wink:


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:37 am  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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why would you want something like this anyway?

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 7:54 pm  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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Jynks wrote:
why would you want something like this anyway?


Because all my media is on my media center, nas, etc., and i only ever play it from the media center via my projector. Its very easy for me to ssh in from windows or linux to the media hub, but I have absolutely no need for a x11/windows environment in most cases. I only use a terminal most of the time, so i like to be able to issue a command and scp the result back to my pc (where ever i happen to be).

Then throw in to the fact that I have media in the uk, and on headless boxes in the uk and france; using an x11 or windowing environment over a WAN is hard enough, but editing video is impossible. That is another reason I need a command line tool.

Finally, I've got some ideas for web services that will require server side processing of media.

Ultimately, there's a billion and one use cases where it was very annoying to have to mount shares, scp/ftp, etc. just inspect a video file.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 7:59 pm  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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I meant.. why you you want ot have a massive ammount of screen caps from a file.. not why would you use a liniux shell.. (I abandoned windows long long ago)

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 8:06 pm  Post subject: Re: Screenshots of mkv without a gui?
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Jynks wrote:
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I meant.. why you you want ot have a massive ammount of screen caps from a file.. not why would you use a liniux shell.. (I abandoned windows long long ago)

ah...

For archiving, chapter bookmarks, etc. and for:
viewtopic.php?f=49&t=21980

grep -v Jynks

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