concatenate_videos_batch: Concatenate Many Videos From a Jobs Table

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Concatenate Many Videos From a Jobs Table

Description

Join clips end to end for many outputs from a single jobs tibble. This is the batch (table-driven) form of concatenate_videos(), for when you have more than one concatenation to produce. Unlike the single-input batch functions, each row's inputs are many. So jobs carries an inputs list-column (each cell a character vector of source paths) plus an output column. This is a thin wrapper over ffm_batch: one reproducible concat-demuxer command per row, sharing the copy + map-0 pipeline with concatenate_videos().

Usage

concatenate_videos_batch(jobs, run = TRUE, parallel = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

jobs	A data frame with one row per output and (at least) an inputs list-column and an output column (destination path). Each inputs cell is a character vector of the source paths to join, in order. An output column is required; this function derives no destination. Two rows given the same output path are refused before any row runs. Any other columns are ignored.
run	A logical: run each command through FFmpeg (TRUE, default) or only compile them for inspection (FALSE).
parallel	A logical: process the jobs in parallel with furrr (TRUE) or one at a time (FALSE, default). See ffm_batch for the future plan requirement.
...	Additional arguments forwarded to ffm_batch (e.g. verify, manifest, progress).

Value

The jobs tibble with an added command column. When run = TRUE, it also has a success column, plus verified or a provenance manifest, each when requested through .... See ffm_batch.

See Also

concatenate_videos(), the one-output function it wraps; ffm_batch(), the batch runner; compare_videos_batch() and picture_in_picture_batch(), the other batch functions that take several inputs per row.

Other task functions: anonymize_video(), anonymize_video_batch(), compare_videos(), compare_videos_batch(), concatenate_videos(), convert_audio(), convert_audio_batch(), crop_video(), crop_video_batch(), extract_audio(), extract_audio_batch(), extract_frame(), extract_frame_batch(), format_for_web(), format_for_web_batch(), normalize_audio(), normalize_audio_batch(), picture_in_picture(), picture_in_picture_batch(), sample_frames(), sample_frames_batch(), segment_video(), segment_video_batch(), separate_audio_video(), separate_audio_video_batch(), standardize_video(), standardize_video_batch(), strip_metadata(), strip_metadata_batch()

Examples

video <- system.file("extdata", "sample.mp4", package = "tidymedia")
jobs <- tibble::tibble(inputs = list(c(video, video)), output = "joined.mp4")
concatenate_videos_batch(jobs, run = FALSE)

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