Video Contact Sheet *NIX (vcs for short) is a script that creates a contact sheet (preview) from videos by taking still captures distributed over the length of the video. The output image contains useful information on the video such as codecs, file size, screen size, frame rate, and length. It requires mplayer, ImageMagick (convert and montage), bc, and ffmpeg. License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Changes:
Deriving timecodes from number of captures by default has been corrected. There is a workaround for MPlayer's strange behaviour with some videos/systems, better support for older versions of bash, some suport for busybox's du, and better alignment for extended set. FOURCC for VC-1 has been added.

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