#!/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 $mkvmerge=`which mkvmerge`; chomp($mkvmerge); my $ffmpeg=`which ffmpeg`; chomp($ffmpeg); my $tmpfile = `tempfile`; chomp($tmpfile); my $chapter_file = $tmpfile; my $input_file_options = "-S"; my $output_file_options = "--chapters $chapter_file"; my $timezone = `cat /etc/timezone`; chomp($timezone); #################################################################################################### #################################################################################################### # Command Line Options getopts("st:o:i:h"); if(! -x $mkvmerge) { die "-E- Unable to find required program: mkvmerge\n"; } if(! -x $ffmpeg) { die "-E- Unable to find required program: ffmpeg\n"; } 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: $0 -t <title> -o <output.mkv> -i <input,input,...>\n"; print " -t <title> Sets the general title for the output video file\n"; print " -o <output.mkv> Sets the name of the output mkv file\n"; print " -i <input,input,...> Sets the name of the input files to make into an mkv file\n"; print " -s Simulate mode. Don't actually make the video, but tell us what you will do\n"; print "\n"; return 1; } #################################################################################################### # Helper Subroutines sub epoch_to_date { my ($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\""; my $video_count = 0; foreach my $video (sort{$videos{$a} <=> $videos{$b}} keys %videos) { if($video_count == 0) { $cmd .= " $input_file_options \"$video\""; } else { $cmd .= " $input_file_options + \"$video\""; } $video_count++; } print "$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"; } ####################################################################################################