• movie-barcodes
  • Install
  • Similar
  • Example Results
    • Uniform column mode
  • Usage

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movie-barcodes

Forked from https://github.com/andrewdcampbell/movie-barcodes

Python program to generate a movie "barcode", or a visualization of the colour palette used in a film. It is generated by compressing each frame into a single column of pixels that are stacked sequentially to form a barcode-like image. Makes for a neat wallpaper.

There are many implementations available, and I don't claim this is the best, but it's clean, simple, efficient, and easily-customizable. Automatically adjusts sample rate according to the length of the video. Runs in under 2 minutes for a typical 2 hour movie.

Supported on Python 3 and OpenCV 3+.

Install

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate

pip install git+https://github.com/michimussato/movie-barcodes

Similar

• https://github.com/timbennett/movie-barcodes
• https://github.com/mlaily/MovieBarCodeGenerator

Example Results

Dunkirk

Blade Runner 2049

Ratatouille

Tangled

Frozen

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Uniform column mode

WALL-E

The Handmaiden

Usage

$ movie-barcode --help
usage: movie-barcode [-h] [-v] [-vv] --video VIDEO [--uniform] [--out-dir OUT_DIR] [--width WIDTH] [--height HEIGHT] [--sample-height SAMPLE_HEIGHT]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         set loglevel to INFO
  -vv, --very-verbose   set loglevel to DEBUG
  --video VIDEO         Video file.
  --uniform             Use uniform color columns.
  --out-dir OUT_DIR     Where to save the output file.
  --width WIDTH         Width of the barcoded image.
  --height HEIGHT       Height of the barcoded image.
  --sample-height SAMPLE_HEIGHT
                        Sample Height of the barcoded image. In compressed mode, each frame is resized into a 1xSAMPLE_HEIGHT vector. SAMPLE_HEIGHT should be at most the input
                        height and at least 1 (which is equivalent to uniform mode). Smaller values yield smoother results.

Example:

movie-barcode --video "<full_path_to_movie>.mp4" --out-dir "<full_path_to_output_dir>/" --width 3000 --height 1 --sample-height 1