I'm trying to draw a box on one part of the screen at a specific instance in time. I've tried looking through the documentation for ffmpeg-python, but am unable to locate any instance of support for the enable option.
I tried using
(
ffmpeg
.input(video)
.drawbox(x, y, w, h, enable=f"between(t,{timestamp},{total_time})")
.output("out.mp4")
.run()
)
hoping that it would be passed to ffmpeg as a kwarg, but this has no effect on the video and the box never gets drawn.
According to the ffmpeg-python drawbox documentation the syntax is:
ffmpeg.drawbox(stream, x, y, width, height, color, thickness=None, **kwargs)
The first argument is a stream - it should be a video stream.
We may use drawbox filter as follows:
filtered_input_video = ffmpeg.drawbox(ffmpeg.input("in.mp4").video, x, y, w, h, color="black", enable=f"between(t, {start_time}, {end_time})")
Note that the arguments of between are start time and end time.
filtered_input_video comes as first argument of ffmpeg.output:
ffmpeg.output(filtered_input_video, "out.mp4").run()
Updated code sample (using test pattern as input):
import ffmpeg
x, y, w, h = 50, 5, 100, 100
start_time = 3
end_time = 7
input_video = ffmpeg.input("testsrc=size=192x108:rate=1:duration=10", f="lavfi").video # Replace this with: ffmpeg.input(video).video
#filtered_input_video = ffmpeg.filter(input_video, "drawbox", x, y, w, h, enable=f"between(t, {start_time}, {end_time})") # Alternative syntax
filtered_input_video = ffmpeg.drawbox(input_video, x, y, w, h, color="black", enable=f"between(t, {start_time}, {end_time})")
(
ffmpeg
.output(filtered_input_video, "out.mp4", vcodec="libx264", pix_fmt="yuv420p")
.overwrite_output() # Overwrite output if already exist (optional)
.run()
)
Sample output (box is shown from the 3'rd second to the 7'th):
After 1 second:
After 5 seconds:
