VSPipe

Synopsis

vspipe <script> <outfile> [options]

vspipe’s main purpose is to evaluate VapourSynth scripts and output the frames to a file.

If outfile is a hyphen (-), vspipe will write to the standard output.

If outfile is a dot (.), vspipe will do everything as usual, except it will not write the video frames anywhere.

Options

-a, --arg key=value

Argument to pass to the script environment

-s, --start N

Set output frame range (first frame)

-e, --end N

Set output frame range (last frame)

-o, --outputindex N

Select output index

-r, --requests N

Set number of concurrent frame requests

-y, --y4m

Add YUV4MPEG headers to output

-t, --timecodes FILE

Write timecodes v2 file

-p, --progress

Print progress to stderr

-i, --info

Show video info and exit

-v, --version

Show version info and exit

Examples

Show script info:

vspipe --info script.vpy -

Write to stdout:

vspipe [options] script.vpy -

Request all frames but don’t output them:

vspipe [options] script.vpy .

Write frames 5-100 to file:

vspipe --start 5 --end 100 script.vpy output.raw

Pass values to a script:

vspipe --arg deinterlace=yes --arg "message=fluffy kittens" script.vpy output.raw

Pipe to x264 and write timecodes file:

vspipe script.vpy - --y4m --timecodes timecodes.txt | x264 --demuxer y4m -o script.mkv -