NOW it should work for any video file. Also documented a little. Not a lot, but a little.

downscaleVideo.sh

@@ -1 +1,3 @@
+# This downscales the video to a crisp 160:42 (even tho its supposed to be 160:43
+# Note that it's set to crop the video to be the right aspect ratio, too.
 ffmpeg -i original.mp4 -vf "scale=160:43:force_original_aspect_ratio=increase,crop=160:43" shrunk.mp4

pbm2lpbm.py

@@ -5,15 +5,18 @@ import subprocess
 import os
 
 directory = 'pbm/'
-# Load image and convert to '1' mode
-#for filename in os.listdir(directory):
-for i in range(7777):
+
+totalFrames = len(os.listdir(directory))
+
+for i in range(totalFrames):
+	# Read pbm file and run it through pbm2lpbm
 	f = os.path.join(directory, str(i)+".pbm")
 	fi = open(f, 'rb')
 	p = subprocess.Popen("pbm2lpbm", stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
 	lpbmOut = p.communicate(input=fi.read())[0]
 	fi.close()
 
+	# Write out new lpbm file
 	fn = 'lpbm/' + str(i) + '.lpbm'
 	lpbmFile = open(fn, 'wb')
 	lpbmFile.write(lpbmOut)

png2pbm.py

@@ -4,11 +4,12 @@ from PIL import Image
 import os
 
 directory = 'images/correctresolution/'
-i = 0
-# Load image and convert to '1' mode
-#for filename in os.listdir(directory):
-for i in range(7777):
+
+totalFrames = len(os.listdir(directory))
+
+for i in range(totalFrames):
+	# I mean. Shit. It does it for me.
+	# But this converts the pngs to pbms (P4)
 	f = os.path.join(directory, "thumb-" + str(i) + ".png")
 	im = Image.open(f).convert('1')
 	im.save("pbm/" + str(i) + ".pbm")
-	i = i + 1

videoToPng.sh

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
+# This takes all of the frames in the video and turns them into pngs
 ffmpeg -i shrunk.mp4 -vf fps=24 images/fromvideo/thumb%04d.png