Using fluent-ffmpeg
, I have a dynamic list of videos I am trying to stitch together using Node. The below code works but was manually hard-written in. How would I turn this into a loop with the chained function?
I looked into eval()
and couldn't get that to work, and not sure if chained promises is what I'm looking for (not exactly sure what to do here).
ffmpeg()
.input('video/video_after0.mp4')
.input('video/video_after1.mp4')
.input('video/video_after2.mp4')
.input('video/video_after3.mp4')
.input('video/video_after4.mp4')
.input('video/video_after5.mp4')
.input('video/video_after6.mp4')
.input('video/video_after7.mp4')
.input('video/video_after8.mp4')
.input('video/video_after9.mp4')
.input('video/video_after10.mp4')
.input('video/video_after11.mp4')
.input('video/video_after12.mp4')
.input('video/video_after13.mp4')
.input('video/video_after14.mp4')
.input('video/video_after15.mp4')
.input('video/video_after16.mp4')
.input('video/video_after17.mp4')
.input('video/video_after18.mp4')
.input('video/video_after19.mp4')
.input('video/video_after20.mp4')
.input('video/video_after21.mp4')
.input('video/video_after22.mp4')
.input('video/video_after23.mp4')
.input('video/video_after24.mp4')
.input('video/video_after25.mp4')
.input('video/video_after26.mp4')
.input('video/video_after27.mp4')
.input('video/video_after28.mp4')
.input('video/video_after29.mp4')
.input('video/video_after30.mp4')
.input('video/video_after31.mp4')
.input('video/video_after32.mp4')
.input('video/video_after33.mp4')
.input('video/video_after34.mp4')
.on('error', function(err) {
console.log('An error occurred while merging video files: ' + err.message);
})
.on('end', function() {
logger.info('****** STEP 6 ENDED ******');
callback(null);
})
.mergeToFile('video/video_after.mp4', '/video/temp');
Here is my attempt at using eval()
but it doesn't work:
var ffmpegInputCommand = "ffmpeg()";
// For Loop to create the ffmpeg().input() command for multiple inputs:
async.forEach(array, function(data, done) {
if (data.id < array.length - 1) {
ffmpegInputCommand += ".input('" + videoAfter + data.id + ".mp4')";
}
done();
}, function (err) {
if (err) throw err;
else {
eval(ffmpegInputCommand).on('error', function(err) {
console.log('An error occurred while merging video files: ' + err.message);
})
.on('end', function() {
logger.info('****** STEP 6 ENDED ******');
callback(null);
})
.mergeToFile('video/video_after.mp4', '/video/temp');
}
});
// End: For-Loop
}
The variables were defined prior to this above code.
Why not making a simple loop?
start = 0;
max = 35;
while (start < max) {
fname = 'video/video_after'+str(start)+'.mp4'
ffmpeg().input(fname)
start += 1;
}