Install with cargo install --git https://github.com/Sciencentistguy/VideoConverter.git
Run videoconverter [path].
[path] is optional, and defaults to .
Run videoconverter -h to see possible arguments.
If no arguments are given, by default the program will ask if you want to enable TV show mode. If you do, then it will ask you to provide the show name, the current season, and the first episode in the current directory. (This is useful for DVD box sets, where each disk contains some episodes but not a full season.) TV show mode will then enable renaming, and store the output in a folder named with the season.
The program will analyse each file, and convert audio and video streams appropriately, to the following:
- Container:
.mkv
- Video:
- If the original stream is h.264 or h.265, it will be copied.
- Else, by default, h.264, encoded with libx264, with the following flags:
-profile:v high -rc-lookahead 250 -preset slow -crf 20 -x264opts opencl. - The flag
--gpucan be passed, which enables nvenc. This produces h.265, with the following flags-rc constqp -qp 20 -preset slow -profile:v main -b:v 0 -rc-lookahead 32.
- Audio:
- If the original stream is aac or flac, it will be copied
- If the original stream is DTS-MA or Dolby TrueHD, it will be converted to flac.
- Else, aac, encoded with libfdk_aac, with the following flags:
-cutoff 18000 -vbr 5
- Subtitles
- If the original stream is HDMV_PGS (Bluray) or DVD, it will be copied.
- Else, ssa (ass), encoded with ffmpeg's built in encoder, with no special flags.
All other streams are discarded.
This program uses libavformat and libavcodec from the ffmpeg project to analyse the input files. It then constructs an ffmpeg command to convert the files, and then runs it. I may in the future write a backend that used libav* directly.
Available under the GNU GPL