pydub VS Video-Hub-App

Honestly while, C++ is used for professional audio software, you can get a lot done with python and a library like pydub, or you can even learn to manipulate audio files without any libraries in any language. So if you are not particulary interested in C++ at the moment you can start with Python, which is easier to learn. You can check out other python audio manipulation libraries here

I doubt it will matter if you're breaking up mid sentence if you pass in the previous as a prompt and split words. This is how Whisper does it internally.

It's not absolutely perfect, but splitting on the word boundary is one line of code with the same package in their docs: https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/blob/master/API.markdown#sil...

25MB is also a lot. That's 30 minutes to an hour on MP3 at reasonable compression. A 2 hour movie would have three splits.

Even given an option it can be difficult to find the corresponding documentation, if only because of the many different submodules and encoders and decoders and filters that have o-so-slightly different options. That said, I've just switched from pydub to ffmpeg-python (due to memory issues of the former[1]) and judging from the Jupiter notebook[2] it seems a much more intuitive method of constructing ffmpeg pipelines.

[1] https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub/issues/135

[2] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python/tree/master/examp...

With the file downloaded, we're now going to arbitrarily slice it locally (you might have considered wheter it is possible to simply download a clip from youtube; all reliable methods I've found will essentially boil down to downloading the whole and then editing locally). For that we'll use the pydub library:

I guess it's possible in theory, a quick search suggest pydub library.​But you may find something better if you do a little research.

Uses https://github.com/cheofusi/just_playback to play sound. It's actually surprising how hard it was to find a cross-platform Python module to play sound that doesn't require an external dependency like ffmpeg. Even then, modules like https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub don't support features like seeking/scrubbing, which was a must-have for my project.

Once python is installed, you will also need to install the "pydub" package for this script to work. If you're on a Windows computer, you can do this from the command line (run the "cmd") program. If you're on mac, you can do this from the terminal. Basically, the way that you do this is using "pip" -- a "helper" program that comes with python. Once you launch the command line, just run the command python -m pip install pydub --upgrade and you should see a message showing that it successfully installed. If you're struggling with this step, just google how to "pip install python packages" and you can find a lot of beginner guides.

That is kinda what serverless functions are built for. Looks like python has some good libraries for this: https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub.

The files are big, so it's not feasible to load one in all at once. They have to be streamed/chunked somehow. (sadly, pydub doesn't support this...)

First $100: Thirty copies sold of Video Hub App

First $1,000: Three hundred copies sold of my Video Hub App

https://videohubapp.com/

Though I do donate $3.50 of every sale to a cost-effective charity so in theory I made no money for a while until I bumped the price to $5 / copy.

semi-on-topic: I created Video Hub App that is like YouTube for local files: shows you a gallery with scrub-able (preview on hover) thumbnails. But does not work streaming videos to TV / tablet - only for local consumption. Hope someone finds it useful.

https://videohubapp.com/

MIT Open Source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

I created Video Hub App which is MIT License

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

I also sell it for $5 and have sold just over 5,000 copies last month (5 years old app). Importantly, $3.50 of every purchase goes to a cost-effective charity, GiveWell recommended Against Malaria Foundation (see website for details).

https://videohubapp.com/

"The problem" might be that people in this thread and others get frustrated because others have different goals than them.

Of course Electron is overkill for a single-button application. But Visual Basic is absolutely going to be a headache if you want a custom GUI.

Pick the tool that's right for the job!

I build this with Electron: https://videohubapp.com/

Simplest File Renamer - https://www.yboris.dev/renamer & https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer

I wanted to be able to quickly rename files with my text editor (using keyboard commands), so this lets me do it. Plus I share the app online for free.

Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

I started it just for myself, but it ended up so good I spent several more years improving it as people kept buying it (up to almost 5,000 purchases since I started).

Also wrote a couple of dev tools for myself (sharing via NPM too) - https://www.yboris.dev/

I created Video Hub App: https://videohubapp.com/ - it shows screenshots from videos as you scrub/hover across the thumbnail.

I've been so frustrated that FFprobe functionality is not part of FFmpeg.

My app extracts screenshots from videos to create a beautiful gallery of videos. But even though I include FFmpeg already, I need a 50mb FFprobe executable to be bundled with my app just so that I can determine the width, height, duration, and fps of a video file! What is it that FFprobe does that FFmpeg couldn't do with a few extra pieces of exposed API?

https://videohubapp.com/ - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/blob/772b25bbd4b41...

Created Video Hub App (that will be 5 years old next month). I sell it for $5 and $3.50 of each purchase goes to the cost-effective charity Against Malaria Foundation (See GiveWell.org for details).

It was averaging around 100 purchases per month, though it's lower over the last year as I've not had time to release new updates (moving to another state is challenging).

https://videohubapp.com/ - Think of it like YouTube for videos on your computer. Browse, search, and organize your videos

MIT Open Source: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Built Video Hub App that almost 5,000 people have purchased. I was a math teacher, became a web dev 6 years ago, built this 5 years ago. Most proceeds go to charity. Very minor by comparison to others, but I'm just starting out ;)

https://videohubapp.com/ && https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

What I did that is most impactful is that I've been giving at least 10% of my income to cost-effective charities for over 10 years now (see Giving What We Can - thousands of others do the same). This amounts to almost $100,000 given to charity which translates to thousands of people protected from malaria for many years of their lives.

My personal model for my commercial software: charityware - require a payment but made most proceeds go to my favorite (cost-effective) charity.

I'm getting about 100 purchases ($500/month, donating $350 of that) with my Video Hub App - https://videohubapp.com/ - which is also open source - https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

I wrote about charityware a few years ago: https://medium.com/@whyboris/charityware-doing-good-with-pro...