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On 2019.01.28 17:54, Dale wrote: |
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> Howdy, |
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> |
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> As some know, I've accumulated a lot of videos. I googled around and |
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> found some software but not sure based on what they claim if they will |
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> do something I'm looking for. I installed a couple but not real big |
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> on |
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> how they work. One requires me to add videos, one at a time. I have |
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> over 20,000 videos now. Some are short youtube type videos, some are |
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> long videos. It could take me years to add them all doing it one at a |
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> time. Needless to say, that one didn't last long. The biggest thing |
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> I'm looking for, software that can tell me what videos have a low |
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> resolution. As a example, some videos I downloaded a long time ago |
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> have |
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> been updated to have higher resolutions. I may have one that is a |
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> 360P, |
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> or even less, but I may can locate a new version that is HD or even |
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> very |
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> HD. I'd like software that will tell me this sort of info as well as |
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> other nifty features as well. Obviously, I'd like to start with the |
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> lower resolution videos first. |
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> |
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> So far, I have installed Griffith and GCStar. I been googling for |
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> others but some either are not in the tree or I already know they |
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> won't |
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> do one thing I'd like to see. I'd also like to be able to point it |
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> to a |
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> directory and let it build the database on its own. Adding them one |
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> at |
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> a time manually just isn't feasible at all. |
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> |
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> Does anyone know of a software package that will sort a lot of videos |
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> by |
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> resolution as well as track other things as well? It could be that |
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> what |
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> I'd like to have doesn't exist at all. Then again, maybe I just |
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> haven't |
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> found it yet. ;-) |
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> Thanks. |
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> Dale |
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Hi Dale, |
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I don't know about any such program. I use f-spot for managing my |
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still photos, and it does deal with videos, although I don't know if it |
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would easily allow searching/sorting by things like resolution. Even |
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worse, it is not packaged anywhere I know of, and compiling yourself |
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(it's a dotnet project) is not easy, if even possible. |
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However, as I understand it, you want to create a list/database of all |
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your videos, with all or some subset of available metadata, such as |
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resolution. Have you looked whether media-libs/exiftool extracts the |
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data you need? If so, it shouldn't be too hard to craft a tool (I |
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happen to be a Perl bigot, but any similar language should be |
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reasonably close in the required effort) to either put that info into a |
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database (sqlite, mysql, mariadb, postgresql, ....) or even just a |
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single line per video which could be read into a spreadsheet or |
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libreoffice base file. |
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Jack |
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