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Contribution: Frontend for diffing folders and easily start Video-compare
Hi all,
just wanted to give back some information to the community after having found this tool a while back and really loving it.
I mainly use it after re-encoding a big bunch of smartphone vacation videos (sometimes 100+ videos) to quickly verify the results. Normally I have two folders from my video-encoding, "input" & "output" and I always found it a bit cumbersome to start video-compare via CMD, because I didnt find a way to do it quickly. Yes I could create a Batch file, but drag/drop from two different Windows folders to one Batch-file is simply not possible.
I use BeyondCompare for all sorts of diffing already (yes I know, paid software, but at least has a trial) and wanted to share an amazing way to do the job quickly.
First: While diffing the folders (in my example input & output), I can set BeyondCompare to align filenames with different file-extensions. That's helpful when I have multiple different input sources like IPhones (-> *.mov files), Android phones (mp4 files) and transcode them all to target mp4 files. It aligns the files properly if the basename of the file is identical.
After aligning, I see the differences like in the following screenshot. I simply have to click in the middle to select both files at the same type and press "v" on my keyboard (or via right-click contextmenu), which opens up the viedo-compare instance with both the files as parameters.
This "Open-with" command can be configured under options like this:
And yes, of course I could also add custom cmd-flags / options, e.g. the hopefully upcoming "Scale to fit screen" setting to scale properly irrespectively of the resolution of the video files - very helpful when working with mixed 4k / 1080p files in the same diff.
So finally, this really is amazing if you are dealing with a big amount of video-files and you'd like to graphically open up video-compare via a GUI.
Hope it helps
Total Commander version:
Add new button to the toolbar with the following: Command -> full path to video-compare.exe Parameters -> your video-compare parameters %P%S %T%R
%P%S means full path to source %T%R means full path to target
Total Commander version:
Add new button to the toolbar with the following: Command -> full path to video-compare.exe Parameters -> your video-compare parameters %P%S %T%R
%P%S means full path to source %T%R means full path to target
Can total commander also align files with different file extension side by side? Thanks, sounds also really nice
Can total commander also align files with different file extension side by side? Thanks, sounds also really nice
It has a Extension Tab by default that you can use to sort files.
Awesome. Keep 'em coming, guys!
With the latest change, I'd also change my above command in BeyondCompare to "D:\PortableTools\video-compare\video-compare.exe -W "%f1" "%f2""
(-W in capital w is the CMD option for the next release, right?)
Awesome. Keep 'em coming, guys!
With the latest change, I'd also change my above command in BeyondCompare to "D:\PortableTools\video-compare\video-compare.exe -W "%f1" "%f2""
(-W in capital w is the CMD option for the next release, right?)
Yes, you got it right. I'd expect the new version to come out this week.
Another useful utility for launching https://github.com/TetzkatLipHoka/VideoCompareGUI
Another useful utility for launching https://github.com/TetzkatLipHoka/VideoCompareGUI
Cool! Thanks for sharing, @pldavid2.
Total Commander with HOTKEY:
em_video_compare
Putting the parameters to the user defined command, so they can be changed manually in the opening dialogue. They can also be defined in the hot key dialogue.
? --verbose --window-fit-display %C1 %C2
Enhancement using Overlaying histograms on both videos #45
? --verbose --window-fit-display -l "split=2[a][b],[b]format=gbrp,histogram=display_mode=stack:colors_mode=coloronblack:level_height=100:levels_mode=linear:fgopacity=1:bgopacity=1,format=yuva444p,colorchannelmixer=aa=0.75[hh],[a][hh]overlay=20:main_h-overlay_h-50" -r "split=2[a][b],[b]format=gbrp,histogram=display_mode=stack:colors_mode=coloronblack:level_height=100:levels_mode=linear:fgopacity=1:bgopacity=1,format=yuva444p,colorchannelmixer=aa=0.75[hh],[a][hh]overlay=main_w-overlay_w-20:main_h-overlay_h-50" %C1 %C2
Snippets from TOTALCMD.CHM
Dialog box: Configuration - Change button bar
Special parameters: ? as the first parameter causes a Dialog box to be displayed before starting the program, containing the following parameters. You can change the parameters before starting the program. You can even prevent the program's execution.
%C1 Like the first parameter of "Compare by content": First selected file, or file under cursor %C2 Like the second parameter of "Compare by content": Second selected file, or first selected in target panel, or file with same name in target panel. Note: If the right panel is active and less than 2 files are selected, %C1 and %C2 will be reversed.
