Video Import - Encoding tips?

[Jim Hood]

I was reading through the messages with the label video.

I am wanting to try to upload some small videos to the BB1.

I would like to compress them to preserve space. 

Was wondering if anyone had any tips on encoding settings such as:

-Display Geometry - How small should I try for the small screen?

-Video settings - H264?, H265?, frame rate, bitrate and so on.

I intend on using handbrake, but could use Nero or something else.  Would prefer handbrake....

I would probably just be transferring small music videos.  Don't plan to watch movies, but who knows, maybe some small spongebob things for the kids?  Anyway....  Any hints on how to squeeze the file-size but still look good on the BB1.

[Marshall Bernal]

Before anyone reads what I wrote, these are just some observations, I have no solution...

Youtube media seems to be stored in:
/media/sd3/videos/F0000

And each video seems to have three components:
1. the video itself, no file extension, just a series of letters/numbers (no file extension)
2. a jpg of one frame of the video (the thumbnail? Also 480x360) named the same letter/number combo with .jpg at the end
3. a text file containing the actual YouTube name of the video named the same letter/number combo with .txt at the end

I downloaded one of the videos from the device and played it via MPC-HC and the file is formatted as such:
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 640x360 30fps 555kbps [V: ISO Media file produced by Google Inc. Created on: 01/25/2020. (h264 constrained baseline L3.0, yuv420p, 640x360, 555 kb/s)]
Audio: AAC 44100Hz stereo 96kbps [A: ISO Media file produced by Google Inc. Created on: 01/25/2020. (aac lc, 44100 Hz, stereo, 96 kb/s)]

The assumption is that if you can format a video the same way and include the other files (jpg and txt) that the video will show up and you can play it… Perhaps there is a transcoding job on the Brennan that you can point at a URL/file.

Grepping around the file system I can see that the ytdl libraries are referenced...  I did try creating a group of files that seems to follow the same standard... no dice...

[JFBUK]

Hi,

this thread may be of interest.

https://groups.google.com/g/brennanb2/c/mp6VCSUpcyU/m/4hhTdoq7AgAJ

and this software release introduced the functionality in the Web UI

29th January 2020

1) Import video files (mov and mp4) from USB on BB1 - through the Browse USB menu
2) Rename videos - three dots in search results
3) Fix truncation of Youtubes on B2

John

[Marshall Bernal]

Just tested this - works exactly as advertised!

As a side note - any way to do this via the network interface/browser?

If not, should I drop a feature request to do so? Does it make sense?

Thanks!

-m