A timecode is a way of displaying time-only information as an offset from a starting point. Often used on audio and video as the time from the start of the media. Commonly displayed in HH:MM:SS
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Remux mp4 file containing data stream
I’m developing an app that needs to clone an MP4 video file with all the streams using FFmpeg C++ API and have successfully made it work based on the FFmpeg remuxing example.
This works great for video and audio streams, but when the video includes…

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Copy out parts of an EDL, calculate duration but loop fails
I have a simply formatted text file (Edit Decision List) with rows of numbers followed by rows of properties (names etc.).
For each match, I am trying to make a list from the name string, followed by duration (difference between…

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How do I change timecode strings into numerals in Vbscript?
I have this form of string entry:
002 0000 A C 00:00:20:01 00:00:31:23 00:01:29:24 00:01:41:21
From previous question I can capture it with:
Set re = New RegExp
re.Pattern = "C (\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})…

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ffmpeg stdout wrong timecode out
If I run this command line
ffmpeg -ss 0 -t 3600 -i file1.mp3 -ss 0 -t 20 -i file2.mp3 -filter_complex "[0][1]concat=n=2:v=0:a=1" -ac 2 -f wav - > test.wav
I'm basically putting the stout inside a container wav (test.wav) but the duration is always…

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Transform string to timecode pattern?
How can I get zeroes into my strings with the following results (a few examples):
1 => 01
01.0 => 01.00
1.0.01.00 => 01.00.01.00
1.0.0.0 => 01:00:00:00
10.0.10.0 => 10:00:10:00
This is what I've come up with so far but it doesn't give me what I…

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How to compare start time and end time when the time format is customized one?
I have my time format as 00:00:00:00 (HH : MM : SS: FF) where FF denotes framerate -29fps. Can anybody help how to validate the start time and end time using jQuery, when end time should not be less than start time.

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Converting number of drop frames to seconds in XSLT
I am currently working with a total number of frames from an XML. What I am attempting to do is convert this in an amount of time. I know that my fps is 30. I have successfully calculated the total number of frames I have and converted this into…

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objective c - AvAssetReader and Writer to overlay video
I am trying to overlay a recorded video with AvAssetReader and AvAssetWriter with some images. Following this tutorial, I am able to copy a video (and audio) into a new file. Now my objective is to overlay some of the initial video frames with some…

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Maintaining timecode using -ss trim tool
I'm currently using this FFMPEG script (using "run shell script" in Automator) on QT ProRes files to strip off the first six channels of audio, pass through for audio and video, and trim the first 6.5 seconds off the beginning of the video:
for f in…

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Subtracting a Timecode from another Timecode using javascript/jquery
In my project I needed to add a timecode(offset) with another timecode(original), to show it in a custom html5 video player.
00:00:17.16 --->(original timecode) +
07:49:42.08 --->(offset timecode)
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07:49:59:24 sincle framerate is 23,…

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Sorting timecodes in XLST
Anyone have a thought on how I could sort this? I'm wanting to sort by ascending timecode values in my xlst, but I don't think a typical sort will read the timecode values correctly.
My ultimate goal is to 1) Sort the nodes by timecode values…

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Converting timecodes
Is there a way in python to convert timecodes, for example:
t1 = 00:05:08 in 24fps
==> What is t1 in 23.997 fps?
I basically want to convert from dropframe to non-dropframe and vice versa.
So far I have:
from timecode import Timecode
tc1 =…

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PHP: Working with video and timecodes
Are there any good libraries (preferably free) for working with video files and their timecodes? I especially need two kinds of functionality:
Get information about video files in as many formats as possible, but most importantly QuickTime. For…

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Android read SMPTE timecode from video stream
I am trying to read SMPTE timecode from a video stream. The SMPTE timecode was inserted by Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder.
Is there a function in the MediaCodec or `MediaPlayer classes that can do that (read the inserted timecode)?
I checked…

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Use python to add two timecodes together
I am extracting timecode from video files and need to add the two together to get a total running time.
So I have one video that is 00:20:10:01 and another video that is 00:14:15:05, and want to get the value 00:34:25:06, the sum of both.
Lets say…

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