> I found a modified a ffmpeg shell script no later than yesterday that finds all my movies files and generates one jpeg with 16 "tiles" thumbnails for each movie
I wrote a script called dovid I left on Pastebin that creates contact sheets (what you are describing) for every video file of any popular format in the directory executed and then combines them into a webpage or pdf. But it isn't an exceptional script because it just utilizes vcs[1] and convert (ImageMagick). At some point, I stopped using the script and just aliased this command (arbitrarily as 'peak') in my ~/.bash_profile
alias peak='for i in *.mkv *.mpg *.wmv *.avi *.mov *.m4v *.mp4; do echo "$i"; /opt/local/bin/vcs -q -q -j -dt -ds -dp -u "0" -n 16 -c 4 -H 162 "$i"; done; echo ".......... converting jpgs to a pdf"; /opt/local/bin/convert *.jpg index.pdf; /bin/rm *.jpg'
Creates a pdf of contact sheets 4x4@162dpi, much neater than a directory filled with as many jpegs as videos. Obviously, this is dangerous and destructive if there are other jpeg files in that directory.
I wrote a script called dovid I left on Pastebin that creates contact sheets (what you are describing) for every video file of any popular format in the directory executed and then combines them into a webpage or pdf. But it isn't an exceptional script because it just utilizes vcs[1] and convert (ImageMagick). At some point, I stopped using the script and just aliased this command (arbitrarily as 'peak') in my ~/.bash_profile
Creates a pdf of contact sheets 4x4@162dpi, much neater than a directory filled with as many jpegs as videos. Obviously, this is dangerous and destructive if there are other jpeg files in that directory.[1] http://p.outlyer.net/vcs (ffmpeg is a dependency)