#!/usr/bin/env python3 """ Extracts the first 1.5 minutes of a video into: - a video-only file (no audio) - an audio-only file (no video) Output goes into an 'extracted' folder next to this script. Requires: ffmpeg installed and on PATH. """ import subprocess import os import sys import shutil # ─── Hardcoded input (relative to this script's directory) ─── inputs = [ "/path/to/movie_b.mp4", "/path/to/movie_a.mkv" ] INPUT_FILES = [] for input_file in inputs: INPUT_FILES.append(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), input_file)) DURATION = 90 # 1.5 minutes in seconds OUT_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "extracted") # ─── Analysis-friendly codecs (NOT GPU) ─── # Video: FFV1 (lossless, intra-only) in MKV. Every frame stands alone, no # P/B-frame prediction, no blocking artifacts -> exact frames for similarity # (SSIM/pHash/features) + fast random access. Decoded with -pix_fmt yuv444p # to avoid 4:2:0 chroma-subsampling noise. # Audio: PCM float32 WAV, 48 kHz mono. Bit-exact waveform preserves phase for # cross-correlation / GCC-PHAT. Never MP3/AAC/Opus here (MDCT + padding # smears transients and shifts correlation peaks). FLAC is the only # acceptable compressed alternative (lossless). # GPU (RX 7900 XTX via VAAPI/AMF: h264_vaapi/hevc_vaapi/h264_amf): deliberately # NOT used. Those encoders are lossy delivery codecs, lower quality per bit, # inter-frame only, and FFV1/PCM/ProRes/DNxHR have no GPU implementation. # GPU only makes sense for preview proxies, not for measurement. CPU encode # of 90 s clips is fast enough and bit-exact. VIDEO_CODEC = ["-c:v", "ffv1", "-level", "3", "-pix_fmt", "yuv444p"] AUDIO_CODEC = ["-c:a", "pcm_f32le", "-ar", "48000", "-ac", "1"] # ─── Check ffmpeg ─── if shutil.which(f"ffmpeg") is None: sys.exit(f"ERROR: 'ffmpeg' not found on PATH. Install it and try again.") # ─── Prepare output folder ─── os.makedirs(OUT_DIR, exist_ok=True) for INPUT_FILE in INPUT_FILES: # ─── Derive output filenames ─── stem = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(INPUT_FILE))[0] video_out = os.path.join(OUT_DIR, f"{stem}_video.mkv") # FFV1 audio_out = os.path.join(OUT_DIR, f"{stem}_audio.wav") # PCM f32 print(f"Input : {INPUT_FILE}") print(f"Video → {video_out}") print(f"Audio → {audio_out}") print(f"-" * 50) # ─── Extract video-only (first 90s, no audio, CPU FFV1 re-encode) ─── cmd_video = [ "ffmpeg", "-y", # overwrite output "-i", INPUT_FILE, "-t", str(DURATION), "-an", # no audio *VIDEO_CODEC, # ffv1 lossless intra-only, CPU (no GPU equiv.) video_out ] print(f"[video: {stem}] running ffmpeg…") r = subprocess.run(cmd_video, capture_output=True, text=True) if r.returncode != 0: sys.exit(f"ffmpeg (video) failed:\n{r.stderr}") print(f"[video: {stem}] done ✔") # ─── Extract audio-only (first 90s, no video, CPU PCM re-encode) ─── cmd_audio = [ "ffmpeg", "-y", "-i", INPUT_FILE, "-t", str(DURATION), "-vn", # no video *AUDIO_CODEC, # pcm_f32le 48kHz mono, CPU (no GPU equiv.) audio_out ] print(f"[audio: {stem}] running ffmpeg…") r = subprocess.run(cmd_audio, capture_output=True, text=True) if r.returncode != 0: sys.exit(f"ffmpeg (audio) failed:\n{r.stderr}") print(f"[audio: {stem}] done ✔") print(f"-" * 50) print(f"All done. Files are in:", OUT_DIR)