How to combine .txt ACLs without breaking things
I've come across a lot of RBLs and blocklists that sometimes have an instance of weird formatting whether that is missing a newline character or having an extra "space" at the end of the IP. This can break a lot of daemons and firewalls.
Here is my safe way of trying to concatenate lists:
cat somelist.txt | sed s/" "//g|sed -e '$a' >>updatedlist.txt
The first sed removes any spaces which is more common than you thin........
mencoder instead of ffmpeg to join or concatenate video files with different audio streams
The problem for me is that Ihad two videos with different types of audio streams. ffmpeg would join them but they would not play past the point of the join.
So Iused mencoder like below and it joined the audio and made them both mp3 streams and it worked!
-oac mp3lame specifies the audio to be convered into an mp3 stream using the lame codec.
after the oac the two files are the ones to be joined.
the -o is the name of the outp........
ffmpeg how to watermark and concatenate in one command
If you were in my boat you were frustrated that you had to double encode, eg. one separate encode for watermark and a separate from concat and it's not easy to figure out this with ffmpeg on your own. However it is a nice way to save time!
ffmpeg -i file1.mp4 -i file2.mp4 -i file3.mp4 -i watermark.png -filter_complex "[0:v]setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[v0]; [1:v]setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[v1]; [2:v]setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[v2]; [v0][0:a][v1][1:a][v2][2:a]concat=n=3:v=1:a=1[v][aout]; [v][3:........