Alert every two minutes of video

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Alert every two minutes of video

Postby falco2000 » 19 Dec 2014 18:45

Hello, I need to have an alert each time the playback position of a movie is a multiple of 2 minutes (i.e. at 0h2m0s, at 0h4m0s, at 0h6m0s, etc.). This alert should be acoustic, like a "beep", for example, or a flash of the computer screen. Is it possible and how? I need this alert because I'm using VLC to transcribe the speech of a video and I have to put timestamps in the text. Thank you very much.
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Re: Alert every two minutes of video

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 19 Dec 2014 22:07

It should be possible with an audio filter to some extent.
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Re: Alert every two minutes of video

Postby falco2000 » 19 Dec 2014 22:22

It should be possible with an audio filter to some extent.
You mean that I could:

1) create an audio track containing a beep every two minutes, with the same length of the movie
2) extract the audio track from the movie and merge it with the beep track
3) create a new movie with the new audio track and the old video track

Is it right? It's not very easy since the file is 20 GigaBytes large... :?

EDIT: I read your answer again and I realized that you probably meant something different... Did you think about a particular audio filter that I could try out?
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Re: Alert every two minutes of video

Postby Rémi Denis-Courmont » 20 Dec 2014 10:19

No. You'd need to write one.
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Re: Alert every two minutes of video

Postby falco2000 » 20 Dec 2014 12:39

Ok, thank you for your help.
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