Michael Opdenacker
2009-Jul-16 21:44 UTC
[theora] Add an intro to a theora file without re-encoding?
Hello, I would like to add a introduction video (typically a title with fade-in / fade-out) at the beginning of an Ogg/Theora video. I generated this intro video in Ogg/Theora from a sequence of png files. I would need to do this in an automatic script, because I have many such videos to process, and without doing any re-encoding step (which would be very costly because my videos are huge). I tried to use oggCat: oggCat final.ogv intro.ogv video.ogv Unfortunately, this doesn't work well because my intro video has no sound track to be concatenated with the one in the real video. As a consequence, the concatenated video only has a video track. It tried to add a silent track to my introduction video (same bitrate) with oggzmerge, but oggCat doesn't like the result: Warning: found unknown stream, this stream will be ignored Warning: found unknown stream, this stream will be ignored StreamSerializer::fillStreams: we got a real problem with the stream Any suggestion for a way to add such an intro video in a simple way? I am also open to doing it when I encode my main video to Theora... I would then have: * An intro video with no sound * An h264 video Thank you in advance for your suggestions.... Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com + 33 621 604 642
ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com
2009-Jul-16 21:52 UTC
[theora] Add an intro to a theora file without re-encoding?
> Warning: found unknown stream, this stream will be ignoredMight well be skeleton. Try: oggz rip -c theora -c vorbis -o intro-without-skeleton.ogv intro.ogv then use that new file. Do this for the other file too, if need be.
Conrad Parker
2009-Jul-16 22:23 UTC
[theora] Add an intro to a theora file without re-encoding?
2009/7/17 Michael Opdenacker <michael at free-electrons.com>:> Hello, > > I would like to add a introduction video (typically a title with fade-in > / fade-out) at the beginning of an Ogg/Theora video. I generated this > intro video in Ogg/Theora from a sequence of png files. > > I would need to do this in an automatic script, because I have many such > videos to process, and without doing any re-encoding step (which would > be very costly because my videos are huge). > > I tried to use oggCat: > oggCat final.ogv intro.ogv video.ogv > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work well because my intro video has no > sound track to be concatenated with the one in the real video. As a > consequence, the concatenated video only has a video track. > > It tried to add a silent track to my introduction video (same bitrate) > with oggzmerge, but oggCat doesn't like the result: > Warning: found unknown stream, this stream will be ignored > Warning: found unknown stream, this stream will be ignored > StreamSerializer::fillStreams: we got a real problem with the stream >what was the silent track? What encoder did you use, and was it the same version as was used for the audio track of the main video? Conrad.
yorn at gmx.net
2009-Jul-17 04:55 UTC
[theora] Add an intro to a theora file without re-encoding?
Hey Michael,> Hello, > > I would like to add a introduction video (typically a title with fade-in > / fade-out) at the beginning of an Ogg/Theora video. I generated this > intro video in Ogg/Theora from a sequence of png files. > > I would need to do this in an automatic script, because I have many such > videos to process, and without doing any re-encoding step (which would > be very costly because my videos are huge). > > I tried to use oggCat: > oggCat final.ogv intro.ogv video.ogv > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work well because my intro video has no > sound track to be concatenated with the one in the real video. As a > consequence, the concatenated video only has a video track.The first file is the main one, oggCat tries to concatenate the others to fullfill the requirements of this first file. So if there is no audio stream, in the next files, the audio stream is not used. If you would do it the other way round, like oggCat final.ogv video.ogv intro.ogv then oggCat would complain, that there is no audio in the second file (as the first one has one).> > It tried to add a silent track to my introduction video (same bitrate) > with oggzmerge, but oggCat doesn't like the result: > Warning: found unknown stream, this stream will be ignored > Warning: found unknown stream, this stream will be ignored > StreamSerializer::fillStreams: we got a real problem with the streamHow do you produce the "silence"? Sounds as if it was not a vorbis stream!? The message "We got a real problem ... " is a bit missleading ;-). This usually means the stream ends invalid (e.g. there is no End-Of-File indicator or a packet is corrupt because it is read from a livestream etc). oggCat tries (mostly successfully) to create a valid stream also in such situations. However, with version 0.9 I need to rework the error handling :-/> > Any suggestion for a way to add such an intro video in a simple way?I have a small program to create silence (in wave). I then use oggenc with the same parameters as from the subsequent audio stream and I have had no problems. I've used that method for my video tutorial. -Yorn
yorn at gmx.net
2009-Jul-17 10:41 UTC
[theora] Add an intro to a theora file without re-encoding?
> Is your silent wav generator available somewhere? That sounds like a > cleaner way to recommend, for example for people who need to make long > intros.I clean that up and send it, when I am at home again this evening. - Yorn
yorn at gmx.net
2009-Jul-17 15:05 UTC
[theora] Add an intro to a theora file without re-encoding?
Hey Michael, all> Is your silent wav generator available somewhere? That sounds like a > cleaner way to recommend, for example for people who need to make long > intros.I added a new tool called "oggSilence" (I spend my lunch break for that ;-) It is not tested completely, but it works for my cases. And it directly produces an ogg/vorbis file. Just check out revision 66 from https://oggvideotools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/oggvideotools - Yorn PS: Michael sorry for the double post, forgot to reply to all
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