Videodigest: Automatic Video Summaries

Videodigest is a command-line utility for generating summaries of videos by (1) applying an automatic summarization algorithm to their subtitles to find the N most important sentences, then (2) compiling the video regions where those sentences appear.

Please cite this library if you end up using it academically:

APA style:

Germanidis, A. (2015). Videodigest [Software]. Available from https://github.com/agermanidis/videodigest.

Chicago style:

Germanidis, A. 2015. Videodigest.

Installation

pip install videodigest

Examples

• The Empire Strikes Back
• Clockwork Orange
• Mr. Robot S01E10

Usage

$ videodigest -h
usage: videodigest: Automatic Video Summaries [-h] -i VIDEO_FILE -s
                                              SUBTITLES_FILE [-t DURATION]
                                              [-L LANGUAGE] [-S SUMMARIZER]
                                              [-o OUTPUT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i VIDEO_FILE, --video-file VIDEO_FILE
                        Input video file
  -s SUBTITLES_FILE, --subtitles-file SUBTITLES_FILE
                        Input subtitle file (srt)
  -t DURATION, --duration DURATION
                        Duration of summary
  -L LANGUAGE, --language LANGUAGE
                        Language of subtitles
  -S SUMMARIZER, --summarizer SUMMARIZER
                        Auto-summarization algorithm (text-rank | luhn |
                        edmundson | lex-rank | lsa)
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output file

License

MIT