VHS - Video Handler Script, using ffmpeg

[sea]

0.9.2
* Increased HD (hdr, fhd, 4k) bitrates by about the double, might be (slightly) reduced again, once multipass is working well
* Added estimated filesizes for 1 minute of video to help text
* StreamInfo now hides messages with the 'at' symbol
* Fixed subtitle id issue, which caused audiostreams to be added multiple times

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1.0.0
* Improved Config screem a little, added selection for language and toggles of booleans
* Droped multipass, as its not about quality, but exact filesize
* Adding: -G(uide) option, which will record your webcam as PiP over the recording of your desktop
* Added (changed) "-p" option to assign where you want the webcam to be displayed, and at what scale, see help for more info

Since Multipassing was the 'final' goal, but got droped, adding the 'Guide' option was another big goal i havent mention, but got the solution presented on a silver table - therefor its implemention was very fast and smooth.
This said, i specialy want to thank Kepstin(-laptop) of freednodes IRC channel #ffmpeg for the help provided.
Could not have done it without you, at least not this fast - Thank you!

I consider this the final release, hotfixes may follow, but their appearance (interval) will depend upon YOUR feedback.

Hope this helps
Enjoy

EDIT:
At the age of 34, this is my 3443'th post... by accident

[sea]

1.0.1
* Container updates, added: avi (fixed now), flac, mpeg, ogg (also as vorbis), ogm (also as theora), wma, wmv, xvid
* Extracting audio does now save the command to the logfile
* Slightly reduced video bitrates of the 'Q presets' for hdr and fhd, you can still overwrite them using either "-B" or "-b v2222"

EDIT:
Hoftix: Due to more codecs/containers, there was an error with the automated filename generation... fixed now

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1.0.3
* Fixed some issues occoured upon first start
* Using the default container, or -e CONTAINER now gets applied to Guide- Screen- and Webcamrecording too
* Added (to the first post) a Video guide how to prepare your system (install rpm fusion & vhs), introducing the 'Guide' recording mode -- now you see me
* Added chinese to the list of languages available, Ni name hao

[sea]

1.0.5
* Added: -a FILE, include audio, subtitle, logoimage or another video overlay
* Added: -K, Kill process of selected outputfile
* Fixed: -p [tcb][lcr], Picture in Picture orientation
* Fixed: -Q [clip,vhs,dvd,hdr,fhd,uhd], Video Bitrates, current value's eventualy decided to be final
* Fixed: DvD encoding works again, with non-protected-discs only (still)
* Updated: First configuration screen

NOTES:
Now available by repositry (requires rpmfusion repos as well!)....

su
wget http://sea.fedorapeople.org/sea-devel.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/sea-devel.repo
yum install -y vhs

[Dutchy]

Kudos, this looks pretty nice.
Also seems to support 2 pass encodes, which is totally dreaded to do manually with ffmpeg and all its options and switches.

[sea]

Thank you.

I droped it since i couldnt play those files on my TV, played well in VLC though, but wasnt sure enough.
So the the 2 pass did work for you Dutchy?

[sea]

1.0.7
* (re-)Added 2pass encoding, use: vhs -2 video
* Fixed some small typos
* Reducded '-Q dvd' back to v640

[Dutchy]

1.0.7
* (re-)Added 2pass encoding, use: vhs -2 video
* Fixed some small typos
* Reducded '-Q dvd' back to v640

Nice you've (re)added 2pass.
I'll try it again because that didn't work before like you thought.

It seemed to work just fine, i.e. that it provides a way to quickly convert media with some default settings and a nice textual interface.

In my case I found it a bit too complex to get it to do what I want (although I must admit I didn't try that hard).
Maybe I expected an easier way to access complex ffmpeg functions (e.g. the ones that handbrake provides like reference frames, b-frames and denoise filter).
I know a fair amount of ffmpeg switches but not the complex ones (and manually entering twenty parameters for each job doesn't seem very appealing), but with VHS I couldn't find some of the easier options so this script actually creates another problem for me unfortunately.
What would made it ideally for me is when it doesn't obscures the ffmpeg command line that it builds (i.e. see it or adjust it before the encoding starts).
Addressing that would probably be kind of a hard/big task and probably fall outside of your intentions for the script.

One of the things that could be done fairly easily (I guess) and would be nice/fun to have (and make use of the TUI part) is a progress bar.

[sea]

You are welcome
and yes, there was an issue with TUI, while (actualy after) i was 'fixing' first time experience, where a bug did made a good nest for itself...

Thanks to lsatenstein how pointed this out to me, i could fix that -- hopefully, did play well on liveimage, but me changed TUI already again.

doesn't obscures the ffmpeg command line that it builds

As i understand this, you mean something like: it doesnt show the command it executes

You can always see the command it generate[ds]

• vhs -V [opts] [args]
  Would show the command before its loading.
• vhs -L
  To see what was executed.

Modifiy the line before starting, nice idea...
How about another toggle?
Like: vhs -A [opts] [args]
Which would then open an editor so you could edit just the exact generated command.
-A as in Advanced
How does that sound?

I agree about a 'real progress bar', its on the list.
But it is very low prio, as there are more important issues to do first and i'm happy with the currently shown progress with VHS.
As think-starter, how do you display progress (diffrently than it alread does) of unkown size/duration?

Thank you and have a nice weekend

EDIT:
I knew i forgot something:

but with VHS I couldn't find some of the easier options

Which ones?

[sea]

Since recent changes with TUI caused some troubles, i'm pushing this update...

1.0.9
- Added '-A' toggle to edit command before executing
- Fixed tui-value-* errors
- new old bug: webm fails... idk why...

Repo update may take a little....

[sea]

@ Dutchy, could you describe (as good as you recall, or can reproduce) your previous issues?
Maybe it could help to improve the usage experience overall.

[sea]

1.1.0
* Added bash completion

NOTE: Does only apply to the repo installation.
And if you already using the repo, you'll get it anyway

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1.1.1
- Hotfix: There was a tempdir path issue, not sure if only local or here as well, but since noone said a thing, i guess it was fine. (script & package)
- Updated bash completition (rpm package only), codec listing (audio,subtitle,video), bitrate suggestions, and PiP orientation and (optional!!) size suggestions.

[sea]

1.2.3

• Using now vobcopy too to encode dvds
• Partly implemented tui-select

Note:
Keep in mind that just calling:

vhs -D

Will save at ffmpeg default bitrates for DVD.

Instead use:

vhs -DQ dvd

For the DVD i've just done 'King Arthur - Directors cut' (2005, 215mins) it made a diffrence of 1.3 GB.
2.1 GB for ffmpeg defaults, using vhs.
811 MB for "vhs -Q dvd" defaults, straightly encoded to mkv.

Obviously, if its a blueray or better, use either: -Q hdr, -Q fhd or -Q uhd.

Sidenote:
Need to test few more dvd's but chances are high i no longer need ogmrip (4mb).
Besides i also no longer need gtk-recordMyDesktop (100k -> 8.5mb)

EDIT:
Sorry, last night i did this in 2 steps, but havent applied all options to the DVD yet.
Working on this now - stand tight.

EDIT2:
There is currently a bug in TUI 6.6.6-9, please use TUI 0.6.5-X until TUI 0.6.6-15 or higher is out.