A friend dropped a multiple-hour DVD at my house, transfered from an 8mm
tape. “Can you upload to Youtube?”
I mounted it:
mount /cdrom
cd /cdrom/video_ts
and then I found some space to put the results (an NFS server), and I
proceeded to run:
ffmpeg -i vts_01_1.vob -r 16 -ss 0 -t 300 /ssw/morevideos/tim/part1.mp4
ffmpeg -i vts_01_1.vob -r 16 -ss 300 -t 300 /ssw/morevideos/tim/part2.mp4
ffmpeg -i vts_01_1.vob -r 16 -ss 600 -t 300 /ssw/morevideos/tim/part3.mp4
ffmpeg -i vts_01_1.vob -r 16 -ss 9000 -t 300 /ssw/morevideos/tim/part4.mp4
I could write a shell script to do this for me, but I typed it out.
ffmpeg said to me:
Input #0, mpeg, from 'vts_01_1.vob':
Duration: 00:14:34.8, start: 0.227022, bitrate: 9741 kb/s
Stream #0.0[0x1e0]: Video: mpeg2video, yuv420p, 720x480, 9300 kb/s, 29.97 fps(r)
Stream #0.1[0x80]: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 256 kb/s
Output #0, mp4, to '/ssw/morevideos/tim/part4.mp4':
Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 720x480, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 16.00 fps(c)
Stream #0.1: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, 64 kb/s
and the part4.mp4 was actually empty, because the _1.vob file only had about 15
minutes of video in it. I then went on to the _2.vob file.
The results are at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT1-caLBJ9c