#!/usr/bin/perl # Author: Alan J. Pippin # Description: Take a list of video files and create a single mkv video file from them # Pre-requisites: # mkvtoolnix - http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/ # ffmpeg #################################################################################################### # Includes use File::Copy; use File::Basename; use Getopt::Std; use File::stat; use DateTime; use DateTime::Duration; use DateTime::Format::Duration; #################################################################################################### # Configuration parameters - CHANGE THESE TO SUITE YOUR NEEDS my $mkvmerge='mkvmerge'; my $ffmpeg='ffmpeg'; my $handbrake='HandBrakeCLI'; my $tmpfile = `tempfile`; chomp($tmpfile); my $chapter_file = $tmpfile; my $input_file_options = "-S"; my $output_file_options = "--chapters $chapter_file --compression -1:none"; my $timezone = `cat /etc/timezone`; chomp($timezone); my $interlaced_requantize_quality=0.85; my $progressive_requantize_quality=0.7; #################################################################################################### #################################################################################################### # Command Line Options getopts("sqt:o:i:h"); if(! defined $opt_t) { &usage(); die "-E- Missing required title: -t \n"; } if(! defined $opt_o) { &usage(); die "-E- Missing required argument output video names: -o <output.mkv>\n"; } if(! defined $opt_i) { &usage(); die "-E- Missing required argument input video names: -i <input,input,...>\n"; } sub usage { print "usage: $0 -t <title> -o <output.mkv> -i <input,input,...>\n"; print " -t <title> Sets the general title for the output video file\n"; print " -o <output.mkv> Sets the name of the output mkv file\n"; print " -i <input,input,...> Sets the name of the input files to make into an mkv file\n"; print " -q Requantize MTS input videos to decrease output video size (requires HandBrakeCLI)\n"; print " -s Simulate mode. Don't actually make the video, but tell us what you will do\n"; print "\n"; return 1; } #################################################################################################### # Helper Subroutines sub epoch_to_date { my ($epoch) = @_; my $mtime = DateTime->from_epoch(epoch => $epoch); $mtime->set_time_zone($timezone); return sprintf("%4d",$mtime->year)."-".sprintf("%02d",$mtime->month)."-".sprintf("%02d",$mtime->day)." ".$mtime->hms; } #################################################################################################### # MAIN # Turn the list of input videos into a hash with a value equal to the modification time in epoch seconds my %videos; foreach $video (split(/,/, $opt_i)) { if(! -r "$video") { die "-E- Unable to read input video file: $video\n"; } my $mtime_epoch = stat("$video")->mtime; my $mdate = epoch_to_date($mtime_epoch); $videos{$video} = $mtime_epoch; } # Create the chapters file for the mkv file. # Make each video file it's own chapter in the MKV file. # Name the chapter with the date and time the video clip was taken (modified date). print "-> Creating $opt_o with title '$opt_t' from the following video files in last modified date order:\n"; open(CHAPTERS,">$chapter_file") || die "-E- Unable to create chapter file: $chapter_file\n"; my $chapter_num = 0; my $chapter_timecode = DateTime::Duration->new(years => 2000, hours => 0, minutes => 0, seconds => 0); my $timecode_format = DateTime::Format::Duration->new(pattern => '%H:%M:%S.%3N', normalize => 1); foreach my $video (sort{$videos{$a} <=> $videos{$b}} keys %videos) { $chapter_num++; my $hour = 0; my $min = 5; my $sec = 0; my $mtime_epoch = stat("$video")->mtime; my $mdate = epoch_to_date($mtime_epoch); my $duration = `$ffmpeg -i "$video" 2>&1 | grep Duration`; if($duration =~ /Duration: (\d+):(\d+):(\d+)\.(\d+)/) { $hour = $1; $min = $2; $sec = "$3.$4"; } my $timecode = $timecode_format->format_duration($chapter_timecode); print "$mdate $hour:$min:$sec -> $video \n"; print CHAPTERS "CHAPTER".sprintf("%02d",$chapter_num)."=".$timecode."\n"; print CHAPTERS "CHAPTER".sprintf("%02d",$chapter_num)."NAME=".$mdate."\n"; my $dt = DateTime::Duration->new(years => 2000, hours => $hour, minutes => $min, seconds => $sec); $chapter_timecode = $chapter_timecode + $dt; } close(CHAPTERS); print "\n-> Creating the following chapter file for this video:\n"; $chapter_file_contents = `cat $chapter_file`; print "$chapter_file_contents\n"; # Create the mkv video print "-> Creating the MKV video file '$opt_o'\n"; my $cmd = "$mkvmerge --title \"$opt_t\" $output_file_options -o \"$opt_o\""; # Make our input file command line options for all the videos my $video_count = 0; my @video_tmp_files; foreach my $video (sort{$videos{$a} <=> $videos{$b}} keys %videos) { # Make a note of the video extension my $video_ext = $video; $video_ext =~ s/.*\.(\S+)$/$1/; # Detect if the input file is interlaced or not. # There is a bug in mkvmerge 5.0.1 and earlier where if the video content is 1080i, it doesn't mux it properly, and it stutters. # The quick solution to this issue is to run the interlaced video file through ffmpeg and tell it to copy the video/audio streams to a mkv container. # We will then merge this temporarily created mkv container into the final mkv container instead of the original interlaced video. # http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1627194 # http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=155732&page=31 my $progressive = system('$ffmpeg -i "$video" 2>&1 | grep -q "frame rate differs"'); if(!$progressive) { my $video_mkv = $video; print " Detected interlaced video content: $video\n"; if($video_ext !~ /mkv/i) { $video_mkv =~ s/\.[^.]*$//; $video_mkv .= ".ffmpeg.mkv"; print " Re-muxing the interlaced video content as an mkv file: $video_mkv\n"; my $make_mkv_cmd = "$ffmpeg -y -i \"$video\" -scodec copy -acodec copy -vcodec copy -f matroska \"$video_mkv\" > /dev/null 2>&1"; if(! defined $opt_s) { my $errno = system("$make_mkv_cmd"); $errno = $errno >> 8; if($errno > 1) { unlink "$video_mkv"; die "-E- ffmpeg encountered some errors with exit code $errno\n"; } } # Push the name of our intermediate video file onto a list of files to delete on exit push(@video_tmp_files, "$video_mkv"); # Update the name of our video file to equal the name of our new intermediate video file name $video = $video_mkv; } } else { print " Detected progressive video content: $video\n"; } # Re-quantize the input video to reduce the resulting output filesize # This also gives us a chance to deinterlace the video as well # Only do this for .MTS videos if((defined $opt_q) && ($video_ext =~ /mts/i)) { # Set our requantize factor accordingly my $requantize_option = ""; if(!$progressive) { $requantize_option = "-q $interlaced_requantize_quality"; } else { $requantize_option = "-q $progressive_requantize_quality"; } # Set our de-interlace option accordingly my $deinterlace_option = ""; if(!$progressive) { $deinterlace_option = "-d"; } # Use HandBrake to requantize/deinterlace the input video my $video_mp4 = $video; $video_mp4 =~ s/\.[^.]*$//; $video_mp4 .= ".hb.mp4"; print " Re-quantizing input video content: $video_mp4\n"; my $handbrake_cmd = "$handbrake $deinterlace_option $requantize_option -E ac3 -i \"$video\" -o \"$video_mp4\" > /dev/null 2>&1"; if(! defined $opt_s) { my $errno = system("$handbrake_cmd"); $errno = $errno >> 8; if($errno > 1) { unlink "$video_mp4"; die "-E- handbrake encountered some errors with exit code $errno\n"; } } # Push the name of our intermediate video file onto a list of files to delete on exit push(@video_tmp_files, "$video_mp4"); # Update the name of our video file to equal the name of our new intermediate video file name $video = $video_mp4; } # Create our input file command line options for this video if($video_count == 0) { $cmd .= " $input_file_options \"$video\""; } else { $cmd .= " $input_file_options + \"$video\""; } $video_count++; } # Execute our command line print "\n$cmd\n"; if(! defined $opt_s) { my $errno = system("$cmd"); $errno = $errno >> 8; if($errno > 1) { unlink "$opt_o"; die "-E- mkvmerge encountered some errors with exit code $errno\n"; } } # Remove the temporary file used for the chapter generation if(-e "$tmpfile") { unlink "$tmpfile"; } # Remove any temporary video files created during the merge process foreach my $video (@video_tmp_files) { if(-e "$video") { unlink "$video"; } } ####################################################################################################