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Want to tesseract your video? You've come to the right place, my friend.

gem install video_tesseract

video-tesseract my-video.mp4 -g 5x5 -s 320x180 -o tesseract.mp4

This will take your video (my-video.mp4) and tesseract it into a 5x5 grid where each tile is 320x180. The output video will be saved as tesseract.mp4.

This script takes the original video and generates a new "tesseracted" video in which the entire timeline of the original video is laid out in two dimensional space. It's kind of hard to describe in words. You should just take a look at the demo here: http://videotesseract.com

Here's what the script actually does:

1. Extract every frame of the original video as a png.
2. Tile some of these frames into a single montage image. This montage is a single frame in the final tesseracted video.
3. Keep repeating step 2 with new frames from the original video until we've generated every frame we need for the tesseracted video.
4. Compile the montage frames into the final tesseracted video.

• Ruby 1.9+
• OSX or Linux (haven't tested on Windows, sorry)
• FFmpeg – We use FFmpeg extracts the frames from the video and compiles the montages into the final tesseracted video.
• ImageMagick – We use this to stitch together the frames from the original into montages for each frame of the tesseracted video.

On OSX:

brew install ffmpeg
brew install imagemagick

This is mostly a note to self.

1. Bump the version in the gemspec, commit it, push it.
2. Git tag it: git tag -a 0.1.0 -m 'Version 0.1.0' and git push origin 0.1.0
3. Build it: gem build video_tesseract.gemspec
4. Ship it: gem push video_tesseract-0.1.0.gem

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