Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread Gener Badenas
On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 10:33 PM, brian wrote: > > Hi folks, > > There seem to be a number of video editing programs available, at > least according to Synaptic's lists. > > I have a very simple need - I've got a LOT of VHS tapes to convert > before my last VCR dies. I have it all sorted except fo

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:14:19PM +0200, Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > > >project-x should also be able to do that. [...] > http://project-x.sourceforge.net/). and more thanks :-) regards - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 12:06:18PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 12:01:02 +0200 > wrote: > > Care to share a link? Is it Free Software? > > Yes it is. Should be in the debian-multimedia repo. Thanks! regards - -- t -BEGIN PG

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread Victor A . Stoichita
project-x should also be able to do that. Useful info, thanks! Project-x may be a bit more limited than ffmpeg and avidemux though as it doesn't support H.264 (disclaimer on http://project-x.sourceforge.net/).

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 12:01:02 +0200 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 11:50:12AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:12:36 +0200 > > Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > > > > > +1 for Avidemux as a GUI tool. To my knowledge it is the

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 11:50:12AM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:12:36 +0200 > Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > > > +1 for Avidemux as a GUI tool. To my knowledge it is the only gui > > tool > > in linux which allows simple trunca

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread Michael Lange
On Mon, 04 Jul 2016 10:12:36 +0200 Victor A. Stoichita wrote: > +1 for Avidemux as a GUI tool. To my knowledge it is the only gui > tool > in linux which allows simple truncation of files > without reencoding. project-x should also be able to do that. Regards Michael .-.. .. ...- . .-..

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-04 Thread Victor A . Stoichita
I usually use avidemux for that, telling it to copy the audio and video rather then reencode them. Then I do the transcoding with handbrake. +1 for Avidemux as a GUI tool. To my knowledge it is the only gui tool in linux which allows simple truncation of files without reencoding. Last time

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 05:39:58PM +0100, Brian wrote: > If the command line puts you off you wouldn't want to use > > ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:50:00 -i input.mp4 -acodec copy -vcodec copy > output.mp4 I'd second this; it is a more direct way to ask libav to do the job, most of the GUI tools

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-02 Thread brian
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 17:39:58 +0100, Brian wrote: >On Sat 02 Jul 2016 at 10:33:32 -0400, brian wrote: > >> There seem to be a number of video editing programs available, at >> least according to Synaptic's lists. >> >> I have a very simple need - I've got a LOT of VHS tapes to convert >> before m

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-02 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/2/16, Brian wrote: > On Sat 02 Jul 2016 at 10:33:32 -0400, brian wrote: >> >> Amy recommendations, please? 64-bit Debian testing, XFCE desktop, >> plenty of CPU and RAM available. > > If the command line puts you off you wouldn't want to use > > ffmpeg -ss 00:00:00 -t 00:50:00 -i input.mp4 -

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-02 Thread Brian
On Sat 02 Jul 2016 at 10:33:32 -0400, brian wrote: > There seem to be a number of video editing programs available, at > least according to Synaptic's lists. > > I have a very simple need - I've got a LOT of VHS tapes to convert > before my last VCR dies. I have it all sorted except for one thin

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 July 2016 10:33:32 brian wrote: > Hi folks, > > There seem to be a number of video editing programs available, at > least according to Synaptic's lists. > > I have a very simple need - I've got a LOT of VHS tapes to convert > before my last VCR dies. I have it all sorted except for

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-02 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sat, 2 Jul 2016, brian wrote: [...] > I just need to remove that dead space - doesn't matter to me whether I > do that on the MPG or after conversion to the MP4. I don't need all > the bells and whistles that most video programs are likely to have, I > just need to be able to see the video and t

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-02 Thread Juanjo Benages
El 02/07/16 a las 16:33, brian escribió: Hi folks, There seem to be a number of video editing programs available, at least according to Synaptic's lists. I have a very simple need - I've got a LOT of VHS tapes to convert before my last VCR dies. I have it all sorted except for one thing - I ha

Re: Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 02 July 2016 15:33:32 brian wrote: > Amy recommendations, please? If it were sound, Audacity would be perfect. No help to you though. :-( How are you recording them in the first place? Lisi

Truncating MPGs or MP4s

2016-07-02 Thread brian
Hi folks, There seem to be a number of video editing programs available, at least according to Synaptic's lists. I have a very simple need - I've got a LOT of VHS tapes to convert before my last VCR dies. I have it all sorted except for one thing - I have to play the tapes real time, so I leav