*NIXie DVD Magic

mimus

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Mar 27, 2015, 3:23:36 PM3/27/15

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I find in the *NIXies' books of lore that

vobcopy -m -i /run/media/me/LOADED_DVD_TITLE/VIDEO_TS -o ~/MyVideos

copies LOADED_DVD_TITLE-- the entire DVD-- into MyVideos (directory)
(they run about 8 GB apiece, BTW), and

mpv dvdnav://menu --dvd-device=/home/me/MyVideos/LOADED_DVD_TITLE

plays that hard-drive DVD copy and allows it to be navigated as usual (NB
"~" does not expand to home-directory-subpath-- in this case, "/home/
me"-- in the play-directory for some arcane reason).

If you use, replace the home-directory "me" used above with the name of
your own personal home-directory, of course (the terminal-spells won't do
anything bad if you don't, they'll just blow with "not found" errors).

BONUS CANTRIPS: Wrapping the DVD player mpv and the eject command in
shell-scripts and putting links to them on the desktop are awfully handy
too:

SNIPPET

#!/bin/sh

# "dvd.sh"

# navigate loaded DVD

DVD="/run/media/me/"$(dir /run/media/me)
mpv dvdnav://menu --dvd-device=$DVD

END_SNIPPET

and

SNIPPET

#!/bin/sh

# "eject.sh"

# eject loaded DVD

eject

END_SNIPPET

Better living through gee^^^wizardry!

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§ñühwö£f

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Mar 27, 2015, 4:39:36 PM3/27/15

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Wowzers! And here I thot I was teh l337 when I used keymapping to create
a macro to kill firefox {alt+k} :)

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mimus

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Mar 27, 2015, 5:14:40 PM3/27/15

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Watch! nothing up my sleeve!

<flourish:>

ffmpeg -i ./One.mp4 -i ./Two.mp4 -filter_complex 'movie=./One.mp4 [v1] ;
amovie=./One.mp4 [a1] ; movie=./Two.mp4 [v2] ; amovie=./Two.mp4 [a2] ;
[v1] [v2] concat [outv] ; [a1] [a2] concat=v=0:a=1 [outa]' -map '[outv]' -
map '[outa]' -strict experimental ./Three.mp4

and MP4s One.mp4 and Two.mp4 are combined into MP4 Three.mp4!

<bows>

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I can't get it to work with three MP4s.

§ñühw¤£f

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Mar 27, 2015, 8:45:01 PM3/27/15

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Muh...are you cuttin & pastin or do you actually write code snippets on
the fly????

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mimus

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Mar 27, 2015, 8:57:10 PM3/27/15

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Cut-'n'-paste-'n'-edit of saved snippet wot worked:

I have a whole hell-slew of bash-snippets in a text-file, aBnotes.txt
(the "a" is to help ensure it stays at the front of an alphabetical
listing); got another one, aRnotes.txt, for R (C, I just plunder my
source-files, although a lot of those are simply demo programs of some
damned function or technique or other-- for example, I wrote my own
equivalent of telnet, wot actually works, just to have my own versions in
my own style of the socket-based network-programming involved, for
further use).

Gstreamer is a multimedia software-tools suite, wot you can knock them
simple tools together in pipelines as you need, and ffmpeg is basically a
program that incorporates all of Gstreamer in One Big Multimedia Utility
Program (LOL).

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