VideoXT is a simple library and CLI tool for extracting audio, individual frames, short clips and GIFs from videos.

See the documentation for more details.

• Installation
• Usage
• Contributing
• Used By

Installation

Available on pypi.

pip install videoxt

Usage

From the command-line:

# extract audio from a video file (default: 'mp3')
$ videoxt audio MyVideo.mp4
{"video": {"filepath": "C:/Users/gurrutia/MyVideo.mp4", ...}, "start_time": 0, ...}
# extracting audio...
{"success": true, ...}
$ ls
MyVideo.mp4  MyVideo.mp3

As a library:

$ python
>>> # extract all frames from a video file (default: 'jpg')
>>> import videoxt
>>> filepath = 'C:/Users/gurrutia/MyVideo.mp4'  # or <class 'pathlib.Path'>
>>> result = videoxt.extract_frames(filepath)  # or videoxt.extract('frames', filepath)
>>> result.destpath
pathlib.Path('C:/Users/gurrutia/MyVideo.mp4_frames')
>>> result.elapsed_time
3.14159265358979323
>>> len(list(result.destpath.glob('*.jpg'))) # default: 'jpg'
100  # number of frames extracted
>>> result.json()
{'success': True, ...}

Contributing

For guidance on setting up a development environment and to make a contribution, see the contributing guidelines.

Used By

• Best Buy Teen Tech Center at Grand St. Settlement, allowing filmmaking instructors to gather film stills that aid in constructing lesson plans for their youth workshops. Download a workshop example here.