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Video Contact Sheet *NIX

vcs for short.

Details

Downstream packages

Besides the packages provided above, vcs can be found packaged by other users at the following standard repositories.
I don't take part in creating these packages and can't confirm they work as expected.

Archlinux's AUR

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/video-contact-sheet/

$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/video-contact-sheet.git
$ cd video-contact-sheet
$ makepkg -si

Homebrew (aka Brew)

https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/vcs

$ brew install vcs

NixOS / Nix

https://search.nixos.org/packages?show=vcs

$ nix-env -i vcs

Note as of this writing vcs is incorrectly flagged as unfree in Nix 23.11, but already corrected in unstable. You can enforce the install with

$ env NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE=1 nix-env -i vcs

Guix

https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/video-contact-sheet/

$ nix-env -i vcs

Description

This is a bash script meant to create video contact sheets (previews) of videos. Any video supported by mplayer and ffmpeg can be used. A note of warning: Unlike most similar tools it, by default, makes screenshots the same size as the video, see below for details on how to change this.

Take a look at the documentation and/or use the –help and –fullhelp options to learn how to use it.

Notes

Default behaviour

By using configuration files and/or command line options the default behaviour can be tweaked to your needs, these are the defaults, followed by a link with the explanation on how to change it:

Documentation

Documentation has been moved to a separate set of pages.

Some samples

Samples with varied options:
5x4 grid Black contact sheet 5x4 grid, no padding Complete contact sheet Command: vcs -E0 -S 2 -S 4m38 -i 1m 169_heavyrain_om_ps3_051906_hd.avi Command: $ vcs -n6 -H 540  mariposaHD.S01E05.1080p.en.wmv Filmstrip-mode sample White contact sheet

More samples can be found in the documentation pages, e.g. in: Samples, Example configuration, Setting Contact Sheet Colours.

Known Issues

Remember this is a (neverending) work in progress, please report any bugs you encounter, either through e-mail or the bug tracker.

Next version features

See roadmap.

VCS Ruby rewrite by Thomas: Reuses part of VCS' code to produce the same style of contact sheets.

vcs-creator by tudo75: Small gui for VCS

Other similar tools available for POSIX/UNIX-like systems:

ChangeLog

These are the changes of some interest to end users, since the last full version.
Additionally a selection of changes for all versions and the full changelog (gzipped version) are available. (Contributors are listed there too.)

1.13.4 (Published November 26th 2019)

Announcement post

1.13.3 (Published May 26th 2017)

Announcement post

1.13.2 (Published May 18th 2014)

Announcement post

1.13.1 (Published February 26th 2014)

Announcement post

1.13 (Published March 8th 2013)

Announcement post


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