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