Crowdstrike! Baby Crowdstrike!

ChaoticNeutralCzech , 5 hours ago (edited 5 hours ago)

GIF is really terrible as a video format. You can upload actual video with sound on Lemmy (most instances use a 20MB, 900-frame limit, also server-side ffmpeg often times out) or Pixelfed (15MB, unknown frame limit).

Yes, I know you didn’t bother to use an AI or commission an artist to sing the new lyrics but you could mux in an instrumental version (or heck, even just leave the original) for me and others who may remember the melody from the radio but don’t associate it with the music video.

isaaclyman OP , 4 hours ago

True as that may be, I know how to add subtitles to a GIF from YouTube in 10 minutes or less. I don’t know how to do that to a video.

ChaoticNeutralCzech , 4 hours ago

GIF from YouTube

YouTube doesn’t provide GIFs. It provides videos. Use yt-dlp, Aegisub and ffmpeg for a FOSS way of downloading a video, trimming it and burning subtitles into it.

isaaclyman OP , 3 hours ago

Please don’t make me work hard for my memes

ChaoticNeutralCzech , 3 hours ago (edited 3 hours ago)

It’s really not any harder than what you are currently doing. You’d just use a more reasonable video codec. But you do you, it’s not that bad.

thesmokingman , 3 hours ago

The correct way to get someone to move to FOSS is to show them how to do it, not tell them it exists. OP already said they can do the YouTube -> captioned gif in 10min so you need to provide a simple tutorial that identifies the tools to use, how to set them up, and how to create a workflow to achieve the goal of some format with captions in under 10min.

Notice how I explained what was wrong and how to do it? That’s what’s missing from most “you need to use FOSS” posts, including yours.

ChaoticNeutralCzech , 2 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago)

I thought the average !programminghumor user is already FOSSpilled. Of course you don’t have to use the FOSS tools but they are convenient enough to be able to make this in 10 minutes.

Anyway, the relevant commands are

<span style="color:#323232;">yt-dlp -f </span><span style="color:#183691;">"bv*[height<=480]+ba"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> --no-mtime --convert-subs srt --write-sub https://www.youtube.com/watch</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">?</span><span style="color:#323232;">v=9SOryJvTAGs
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># aegisub needs srt; we don't need above 480p
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">aegisub </span><span style="color:#183691;">"The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video) [9SOryJvTAGs].en.srt"
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># now go rewrite appropriate lines in gui, apply style and save as "LoveShack.ass"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ffmpeg -i </span><span style="color:#183691;">"The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video) [9SOryJvTAGs].mp4"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -filter_complex </span><span style="color:#183691;">"[0:v]subtitles=LoveShack.ass[s];[s]crop=w=640[f]"</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -map </span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">[</span><span style="color:#323232;">f</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">]</span><span style="color:#323232;"> -map 0:a -ss 49 -t 21 -acodec aac -vcodec libx265 -crf 20 crowdstrike.mp4
</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:#969896;"># crf 20 for generously high quality because file size is small anyway
</span>

https://pixelfed.de/storage/m/_v2/714119237539833881/3781ba7d4-1bb9dc/mdpKYV9r1rCo/3ID52l5idi5wA03eMVFTTTIjtXNSdAS0M9AZZk4G.mp4

I didn’t bother recreating your subtitle and cut timing but I did crop the video to 4:3. The frame rate is doubled and so is the apparent resolution, while the file size is 6x smaller.

cybervseas , 6 hours ago

That’s a proper gif you can hear. Very nice.