Video Converter is a Rust-based tool that converts .mp4 files to .webm format using the ffmpeg command. The tool applies optimized settings for video quality and performance, processing multiple files in parallel using multi-threading.
- Batch Conversion: Converts all
.mp4files in a directory to.webmformat. - Optimized Settings: Uses the VP9 codec, tunes for PSNR, and applies optimized video and audio bitrate settings.
- Multi-threading: Converts multiple files in parallel for better performance.
- Chunk Processing: Processes two video files at a time to run on a dual processor laptop. This can be adjusted in the code if you have more cores.
- ffmpeg: The program uses
ffmpegfor video conversion, so make sure it is installed on your system. - Rust toolchain: The tool is written in Rust, so you'll need Rust installed to compile and run the program.
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Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/your-username/video_converter.git cd video_converter -
Build the project using Cargo:
cargo build --release
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Run the program to convert all
.mp4files in a directory to.webmformat:./target/release/video_converter /path/to/directory
If no directory is specified, the tool will default to the current directory (
.). -
Example:
./target/release/video_converter /home/user/videos
This will find all
.mp4files in/home/user/videosand convert them to.webmformat.
- Video codec: VP9
- Audio codec: Opus
- Bitrate: Video at 5M, Audio at 192k
- Quality: CRF set to 15 for balanced quality
- Threads: Utilizes 4 threads for faster processing
- Tune: Optimized for PSNR to improve visual quality
Processing directory: /home/user/videos
Converting file with optimized settings: "example.mp4"
Conversion complete for file: "example.mp4"
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All conversions complete for directory: /home/user/videosThis project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.