medipack 2.0.5

A command line tool for media editing

MEDIPACK

Medipack is Media + Package, A command-line tool used to trim, crop, resize media files. It can also be used to extract out audio or video from a media file.

Installation

Install using pip (Recommended)

sudo python3 -m pip install medipack

you may use --user option to install locally for user only in ~/.local/bin

python3 -m pip install medipack --user

don't forget ~/.local/bin should be in your PATH. Add line export PATH=$PATH:"~/.local/bin" in your .bashrc

Build from Source

• Clone the repository and checkout to stable commit

- git clone https://github.com/srbcheema1/medipack
- cd medipack
- git checkout <latest_version say: v0.0.x>
- `python3 setup.py install --user`

• install requirements

python3 -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt

• Install Medipack

python3 setup.py install --user

Verify installation

• check for working

medipack -h

• if it displays help message you are ready to go.

troubleshooting

• In case medipack -h is not working, ensure that binary path is in PATH. Add line export PATH=$PATH:"~/.local/bin" in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc.

• bash users run these commands

echo export PATH="$PATH":"~/.local/bin" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

• zsh users run these commands

echo export PATH="$PATH":"~/.local/bin" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Usage

srb@srb-pc:$ medipack --help
usage: medipack.py [-h] [-v] {trim,crop,resize,extract} ...

positional arguments:
  {trim,crop,resize,extract}

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         Display version number

suboptions are:
    trim        trim a video/audio file from given starting point to given ending point.
    crop        crop frame window of video.
    resize      resize the file by reducing video quality. to make small size video files.
    extract     extract audio-only or video-only file from media file

For more help regarding suboptions run:

medipack trim -h
medipack crop -h
medipack resize -h
medipack extract -h

Supported formats

• mp4
• mp3

supported actions

• trim
• crop
• resize
• extract

Examples

trim

srb@srb-pc:$ medipack trim -h
usage: medipack trim [-h] [-s START] [-e END | -t TIME] [-o OUTPUT] [inp]

positional arguments:
  inp                   input video file ex: input.mp4

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s START, --start START
                        start time for cuting in format hh:mm:ss or mm:ss
  -e END, --end END     end time for cuting in format hh:mm:ss or mm:ss
  -t TIME, --time TIME  clip duration in format hh:mm:ss or mm:ss
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT

• trimming a video from 01:04 to 14:08

medipack trim input.mp4 -s 01:04 -e 14:08 -o output.mp4
medipack trim input.mp4 -s 01:04 -t 13:04 -o output.mp4
medipack trim input.mp4 -s 01:04 -e 14:08
medipack trim input.mp4 -s 01:04 -t 13:04
medipack trim input.mp4
medipack trim

• trimming an audio from 01:04 to 14:08

medipack trim input.mp3 -s 01:04 -e 14:08 -o output.mp3

crop

srb@srb-pc:$ medipack crop -h
usage: medipack crop [-h] [-t TOP] [-b BOTTOM] [-l LEFT] [-r RIGHT]
                     [-o OUTPUT]
                     [inp]

positional arguments:
  inp                   input video file ex: input.mp4 (default: None)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -t TOP, --top TOP     percentage of screen to be chopped from top (default: 0)
  -b BOTTOM, --bottom BOTTOM
                        percentage of screen to be chopped from bottom (default: 0)
  -l LEFT, --left LEFT  percentage of screen to be chopped from left (default: 0)
  -r RIGHT, --right RIGHT
                        percentage of screen to be chopped from right (default: 0)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        output file name, ex: output.mp4 (default: None)

• To crop the bottom right quarter of a video window

medipack crop input.mp4 -t 50 -l 50 -o output.mp4
medipack crop input.mp4 -t 50 -l 50

• To crop away top 10% of area

medipack crop input.mp4 -t 10 -o output.mp4

• To crop away right 20% of the area

medipack crop input.mp4 -r 20 -o output.mp4

• To crop away top 10% of area and right 20% of the area

medipack crop input.mp4 -t 10 -r 20 -o output.mp4

resize

srb@srb-pc:$ medipack resize -h
usage: medipack resize [-h] [-q QUALITY] [-o OUTPUT] [inp]

positional arguments:
  inp                   input video file ex: input.mp4

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -q QUALITY, --quality QUALITY
                        output video quality (on scale of 100) (default: 50)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        output file name, ex: output.mp4

• To resize a video to reduce its size

medipack resize input.mp4 -q 40 -o output.mp4
medipack resize input.mp4 -q 40

extract

srb@srb-pc:$ medipack extract -h
usage: medipack extract [-h] (-v | -a) [-o OUTPUT] [inp]

positional arguments:
  inp                   input video file ex: input.mp4

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --video
  -a, --audio
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        output file name

• To extract audio from media file

medipack extract --audio input.mp4 -o output.mp3
medipack extract --audio input.mp4

• To extract video from media file

medipack extract input.mp4 --video -o output.mp4
medipack extract input.mp4 --video

Note

• For audio-input files only trim action is supported.
• If you dont provide output file then the outputfile will be names as _output. for base.extension file. [except extract option in this output file will get name .mp3 by default]
• You may skip options, medikit is smart enough to detect or ask you the required options as per requirement
• In case of any bug/issue, Please report this to [e-mail]. Or, even better, submit a PR to fix it!

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Developer / Author: Srb Cheema