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I was going to post my podcast on youTube, maybe someone random would run across it why not.

This process had some needs, I needed to make a video, out of audio. To make it less boring I took my RCE logo as a static background image. To do this I went to my usual tools mencoder and ffmpeg. Turns out mencoder did what I needed though not easy.

Mencoder has an easy way to make a video out of a sequence of images, if you use just one image, you get a 1 second video with 1 frame (fps set to 1). To get around this, you could just set the frames per second to 1/runtime of your mp3. But while it would encode it, things like QuickTime crash (includes finder which I am proud of breaking).

The solution (given to me by roo on the IRC channel) was to make that 1 second video, copy it in 5 times to make a 5 second video, use that 5 times to make a 25 second etc. Retarded I know, but it worked. I made a small (dumb) script that automates this. It uses madtime to find the time needed, some math, mktemp and your on your way.

Download the script form the usual location buildyoutube.sh. And see the results on my ….., well I would after I went though all this work, went to upload to youtube, remembered, they don’t allow public videos more than 10 minutes long, damn.

Anyone know how to get more than 10 minutes allowed on youTube?