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cdesch/ShortenVideo.rb

Created September 16, 2015 19:20
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Shorten all videos in a directory to a specified time using ffmpeg
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ShortenVideo.rb
puts 'Converting FLV files'
basedir = '.'
Dir.glob("*.mp4") do |my_text_file|
puts ' --> converting: ' + my_text_file
puts "ffmpeg -i #{my_text_file.gsub(/ /, '\ ')} -ss 00:00:00.0 -c copy -t 00:00:10.0 new.#{my_text_file.gsub(/ /, '\ ')}"
`ffmpeg -i #{my_text_file.gsub(/ /, '\ ')} -ss 00:00:00.0 -c copy -t 00:00:10.0 new.#{my_text_file.gsub(/ /, '\ ')}`
end
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