Video Merger

How to use this project

• Clone this repository
• Create a source directory next to the script files
  • If you wish to operate with the source and dist directories on different harddrives than the repository, you can create symlinks
• If you wish to download recordings from blackboard, paste the contents of blackboard-download.js into the browser devtools console while on the recordings page
• Put your video files into the source directory
• Run the commands below in order

python3 copy_and_rename_collaborate_videos.py
python3 join_videos.py
python3 generate_ffmpeg_chapters.py
python3 generate_youtube_chapters_from_meta.py
python3 apply_ffmpeg_chapters.py

Output

• dist/renamed is a directory that contains copies of the videos in the source directory, but their names will be without the collaborate formatting.
• dist/joined/joined.mp4 is the combination of all the videos in the source directory
• dist/joined/joined_with_chapters.mp4 is a version of the joined.mp4 file that also has chapters chapters embedded into its metadata. Each chapter corresponds to a video in the source directory.
  • Use an advanced video player like VLC to access these chapters
• dist/meta/youtube_chapters.txt is a list of timestamps for the chapters that comprise joined.mp4, that is compatible with youtube's chapter format