Command line interface for recursively transcoding videos and replacing them in place using ffmpeg to make them smaller
The script finds all the following video extensions: .kvm .avi .mp4 .flv .ogg .mov .asf .mkv, and transcodes them to .mp4 in an efficient way with ffmpeg
Works in unix systems. Requiers curl and ffmpeg installed:
ubuntu: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ffmpeg && sudo apt-get install curl
arch: sudo pacman -Sy ffmpeg && sudo pacman -Sy curl
no installation required, in terminal cd to the desiered directory and run
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yeshey/RecursiveVideoTranscoder/main/RecursiveVideoTranscoder.sh)
CTRL + C to stop the script. Will stop the recoding of the current video and replace it with the old again.
- Videos loose subtitles
- It's a very time and CPU consuming process - This is down to ffmpeg.
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- Handled "not enough space left on device" exception when running
mvto /tmp to delete old file instead - Solution found to run script with curl whilst being able to read user input with
read - Fixed CTRL + C halting justs ffmpeg and not whole script, and handling exit appropriately
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