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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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in response to: JeffTucker
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Bad news, ffmpeg refuses to read escape characters in the text files, so the apostrophe character is not allowed in file or folder names.
That doesn't surprise me. But how about URL-encoding an apostrophe as %27?
Or what about wrapping the entire file name in double-quotes?
Nothing works, ffmpeg is just reading the text file and assuming all characters are part of the file path, so it reports an 'Impossible to open 'File path'.
What does work is the attached, it excludes any file that has a ' character, and for the album wide slideshow it also ignores folders with a ' character.
I just need to write some new instructions for the modified tool. |
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 14:51
in response to: RobM
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Nothing works, ffmpeg is just reading the text file and assuming all characters are part of the file path, so it reports an 'Impossible to open 'File path'.
I guess I'm missing something, but in the text file, I'm seeing the path being enclosed in single quotes. Why not use double quotes, instead, so that the text file reads: file "C:\Users\Pictures\Thor's Helmet.jpg"
A file with double quotes in its name is a lot more rare than one with a single quote in it. |
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 14:54
in response to: JeffTucker
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And does this also not work? file 'C:\Users\Pictures\Thor%27s Helmet.jpg'
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 15:10
in response to: JeffTucker
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A file with double quotes in its name is a lot more rare than one with a single quote in it.
Double quotes does not work.
The result is:
ffmpeg version 4.0 Copyright (c) 2000-2018 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 7.3.0 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-sdl2 --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-gnutls --enable-iconv --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libfreetype --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libtheora --enable-libtwolame --enable-libvpx --enable-libwavpack --enable-libwebp --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libxml2 --enable-libzimg --enable-lzma --enable-zlib --enable-gmp --enable-libvidstab --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmysofa --enable-libspeex --enable-libxvid --enable-libaom --enable-libmfx --enable-amf --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuvid --enable-d3d11va --enable-nvenc --enable-nvdec --enable-dxva2 --enable-avisynth
libavutil 56. 14.100 / 56. 14.100
libavcodec 58. 18.100 / 58. 18.100
libavformat 58. 12.100 / 58. 12.100
libavdevice 58. 3.100 / 58. 3.100
libavfilter 7. 16.100 / 7. 16.100
libswscale 5. 1.100 / 5. 1.100
libswresample 3. 1.100 / 3. 1.100
libpostproc 55. 1.100 / 55. 1.100
x Impossible to open '"D:Eigene'
input_Meteo.txt: Invalid argument
If I use something like that:
file "D:\Eigene Dateien\MDrück\Pictures\2018 09 16 Sardegna\More\Meteo\2018 07 07\IT_201807070000.jpg"
duration 0.1
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 15:17
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Well, all I know is that if you add a video to a jAlbum project with a name like This isn't a move.mp4, jAlbum has no problem feeding that MP4 to ffmpeg, and processing it. Clearly, there must be a way to encode characters in a way that doesn't trip up ffmpeg.
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 15:34
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And does this also not work? file 'C:\Users\Pictures\Thor%27s Helmet.jpg'
Having done some more testing it seems I'm missing something really basic.
I have a file named Leopard skin's coat
I run the code, line 232 content += "file '" + folder.getFile().toString().replaceAll("'", "x'") + File.separator + ao + "'\nduration " + duration + "\n";
What gets written to the file is file '/Users/robert/My Albums/Sample Portfolio/Leopard skin's coat.jpg'
It seems my troubles are that the ' in the file name is not the same as the ' in the search and replace, despite even copying and pasting from the file name to the code. |
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 15:50
in response to: RobM
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And does this also not work? file 'C:\Users\Pictures\Thor%27s Helmet.jpg'
Having done some more testing it seems I'm missing something really basic.
I have a file named Leopard skin's coat
I run the code, line 232 content += "file '" + folder.getFile().toString().replaceAll("'", "x'") + File.separator + ao + "'\nduration " + duration + "\n";
What gets written to the file is file '/Users/robert/My Albums/Sample Portfolio/Leopard skin's coat.jpg'
It seems my troubles are that the ' in the file name is not the same as the ' in the search and replace, despite even copying and pasting from the file name to the code.
Shouldn't you be doing the replaceAll() on ao, rather than on the folder name? |
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 15:55
in response to: RobM
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ffmpeg is a bit weird....
I'll say! So, what you need to end up with is: file 'C:\Users\Pictures\Thor'\''s Helmet.jpg'
(Those are all single quotes, despite how they may appear here.) |
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 16:10
in response to: JeffTucker
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What you want, I believe, is this: ao.toString().replaceAll("'", "'\\\\''")
But there's something else wrong with this latest version. Even excluding the "problem" file, I'm not getting any MP4's. The project consists of just a half-dozen images in the root, no folders, and no completed album. All copied files. So, it's just using the images from the image directory.
The slideshow_files.txt file looks fine, and there's a slideshow.mp4.info file sitting in .jalbum, but no actual video. |
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 16:14
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And does this also not work? file 'C:\Users\Pictures\Thor%27s Helmet.jpg'
Having done some more testing it seems I'm missing something really basic.
I have a file named Leopard skin's coat
I run the code, line 232 content += "file '" + folder.getFile().toString().replaceAll("'", "x'") + File.separator + ao + "'\nduration " + duration + "\n";
What gets written to the file is file '/Users/robert/My Albums/Sample Portfolio/Leopard skin's coat.jpg'
It seems my troubles are that the ' in the file name is not the same as the ' in the search and replace, despite even copying and pasting from the file name to the code.
Shouldn't you be doing the replaceAll() on ao, rather than on the folder name?
Easy lob for you  I need to change my meds, not getting enough sleep, really five hours and after that restless. Having gone down the rabbit hole I got focused on the wrong thing.
I have it now, but have some chores to do before I update it again.
the correct code is content += "file '" + folder.getFile().toString().replaceAll("'", "'\\\\''") + File.separator + ao.toString().replaceAll("'", "'\\\\''") + "'\nduration " + duration + "\n";
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 16:17
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I've taken this about as far as I can. Here's what I've discovered so far:
- My proposed replaceAll() string works as intended.
- If I use the album images, I get a video, even including Thor's Helmet.jpg (Yay! Proof of concept!)
- If I use the album images, I'm getting two copies of slideshow.mp4 - one in the image directory, and one in the output slides directory.
- If I don't use the album images, I don't get a video at all.
Haven't even tried multiple folders, or an album-wide video. Too many things floating around in there. |
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 17:58
in response to: JeffTucker
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I've taken this about as far as I can. Here's what I've discovered so far:
- My proposed replaceAll() string works as intended.
- If I use the album images, I get a video, even including Thor's Helmet.jpg (Yay! Proof of concept!)
- If I use the album images, I'm getting two copies of slideshow.mp4 - one in the image directory, and one in the output slides directory.
- If I don't use the album images, I don't get a video at all.
Haven't even tried multiple folders, or an album-wide video. Too many things floating around in there.
I have included all of the search and replace.
I don't see any movies in the album folders, only the image folders (unless I do a make album, of course - maybe you did that previously?
Anyway, this is it, the heat and lack of sleep is not conducive to writing code. I tested it with album images and project images and with all of the variations of adding images/folders in a single project. Both files and folders had apostrophes in them. Everything looks good in the created text files, the log reports had no errors and the videos all had the right timings and images. |
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 19:02
in response to: RobM
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Looks quite good.
When I get back, I may swipe some of the code and incorporate a similar function in NoPages. It would be simpler - it would always be using the input images, it would always be planting the videos in the output, and even the album-wide option might be overkill. No need to check for the necessity of doing it again, either - it would just make a video every time you hit Make Album with that option selected.
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Re: Help requested on debugging ext tool on Windows
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15 Jul 18, 19:59
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Looks quite good.
Good job because I’m code crazy, definately need a break.
When I get back, I may swipe some of the code and incorporate a similar function in NoPages. It would be simpler - it would always be using the input images, it would always be planting the videos in the output, and even the album-wide option might be overkill. No need to check for the necessity of doing it again, either - it would just make a video every time you hit Make Album with that option selected.
In a few days I might try stripping it down and adding it to NoPages.
The album wide movie option is really of limited use on big albums, no body except the user is likely to sit and watch a movie of a hundred plus images. It could do with limiting the images from each folder, so it just gives a flavour of the album. But the GUI and code is complicated enough for an external tool, so I leave that to the end users who, if any, may want that. |
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