extractVideoSections.py

#!/usr/bin/python
#
#   Extract video files from source video based on array of timestamps
#
#   times - array of times we are extracting, from times[x] to times[x + 1]
#   src   - src file
#   dest  - destination file
#
import os
from timecode import Timecode

timestamp = {
    0  : '00:00:00:00',
    1  : '00:24:11:18',
    2  : '00:48:23:13',
    3  : '01:12:36:65',
    4  : '01:36:48:03',
    5  : '02:01:01:48',
    6  : '02:25:14:13',
    7  : '02:49:26:45',
    8  : '03:13:38:34',
    9  : '03:37:50:65',
    10 : '03:54:17:01'
}

src  = '~/folder/source.mkv'
dest = '~/folder/destination-s01e'

for x in timestamp:
    if x == 10:
        break

    start  = Timecode('29.97', timestamp[x])
    end    = Timecode('29.97', timestamp[x + 1])
    length = end - start
    start  = "%s.%s" % (str(start)[1:8],str(start)[10:12])
    end    = "%s.%s" % (str(end)[1:8],str(end)[10:12])
    length    = "%s.%s" % (str(length)[1:8],str(length)[10:12])

    print 'start %s | end %s | exists %s' % (str(start), str(end), str(length))
    print 'ffmpeg -i ' + src + ' -acodec copy -vcodec copy -ss ' + start + ' -to ' + end + ' ' + dest + str(x) + '.mkv'
    os.system('ffmpeg -i ' + src + ' -acodec copy -vcodec copy -ss ' + start + ' -to ' + end + ' ' + dest + str(x) + '.mkv')