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How to split video files upon detected change in resolution? (ie. recorded streams containing multiple widths)

I have many video files (flv/mp4) that change resolution mid-stream (720p/1080p/640). I would like to use something like ffmpeg to automatically detect the change in resolution and split the videos ...
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Downloading m3u8 videos [closed]

I am trying to download video from a .m3u8 livestream video format. How can I download m3u8 videos using software on my personal computer such as ffmpeg, youtube-dl, VLC, etc? M3U is a computer file ...
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How to efficiently create a best-palette gif from a video portion straight from the web

I've been using for some time this couple of commands to convert a video segment to an animated gif, having ffmpeg calculate the best palette for it: ffmpeg -ss $START -i $IN_FILE -t $LENGTH -vf "fps=...
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Properties!Details (run-time length)

When you take clips and turn them into computer playable files, whether .TS or .MOV or .MPG, .MP4, .VOB, etc., do you as the producer actually manually write into some field in a "Details" section of ...
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Create video from a growing image sequence using FFMPEG

I am planning to render a personal 3d project as an image sequence, where each frame takes about a minute to be created and saved as an image file. If I were to use the regular ffmpeg syntax to ...
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