Optical media is also listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ in the DPC Bit List, so discussions about approaches for disc preservation are very important...
Archiving, Demuxing and Ripping Optical Media Discs
Tag: audiovisual
Rescaling Video with FFmpeg
Recently I led an open-source workshop in India, where concerned students asked questions about rescaling SD video tape to HD, or SD upscaling for DCP creation! They were hopeful I knew of open-source workflows/tools already in existence that do this. So I thought I'd write a post about rescaling with FFmpeg and share some commands … Continue reading Rescaling Video with FFmpeg
Using Python to get metadata from your files, and write it to CSV
Ever wish you could magic the metadata from a folder full of AV files into a nice CSV file? Well this blog will hopefully get you to that point, using MediaInfo software to extract metadata from your media files, and cutting it up in Python before writing to CSV.
Finding the deepest AV metadata with MediaConch and MediaTrace
This year there have been two MediaConch projects that have taught me a great deal about writing policies. Both have required using Media Area's MediaTrace, a feature you can only use when manually writing your XML policies.
For the love of FOSS 