Looping Videos

[Sound Master]

I have a 3 second video, and I want to loop it so it last for 10 hours. How do I do that?

[pandy]

You need to provide more details about your source and your target.

[Secoast]

Or google it. Videohelp doesn't always have to be your first port of call.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+loop+video&oq=how+to+loop+video&aqs=chrome..69i...obile&ie=UTF-8

[noemi7]

Also important question is what equipment will be used to play it. Most PC players have loop playback option. Problem may arise with some standalone players.

[Sound Master]

You need to provide more details about your source and your target.

I want to extend my 3 second video to a 10 hour video via looping over and over again and upload it to YouTube.

[pandy]

You can use ffmpeg to prepare such video.

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/YouTube

[TreeTops]

Does YouTube accept 10hour videos?

[Sound Master]

Does YouTube accept 10hour videos?

they do and for longer.

[Alwyn]

@Pandy, there's nothing in the FFMPEG link you provided about creating looping videos.

[Santiago]

VLC Media Player(Free Download)

[pandy]

@Pandy, there's nothing in the FFMPEG link you provided about creating looping videos.

Well, there is example with looping source:

ffmpeg -loop 1 -framerate 2 -i input.png -i audio.m4a -c:v libx264 -preset medium -tune stillimage -crf 18 -c:a copy -shortest -pix_fmt yuv420p output.mkv

so to modify it for looping 3 seconds into 10 hours you need to modify it in such way:

ffmpeg -loop 12000 -i inputfile -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 18 -c:a aac -b:a 160k outputfile.mkv

Also there is a chance that bellow example may work (you need to verify).

ffmpeg -loop 12000 -i inputfile -c copy -f mpegts outputfile.ts

12000=(10*3600)/3

Btw - all above is not tested

[Cornucopia]

I see very little point to going to the trouble of either prepping & uploading, or of DL & viewing, a looped video, when it is SIMPLE to loop in YT already through its player (right-click).


Scott

[jagabo]

AviSynth: Loop(N) where N is the number of times to repeat the sequence (including the original). 10 hours is 36000 seconds. So you need to repeat the sequence 12000 times, Loop(12000).