batch-process-videos

Installation

brew install handbrake
brew install ffmpeg
brew install mkvtoolnix
brew install mp4v2
bundle install

• Copy example_config.yml -> config.yml and modify as needed

process.rb

Batch process video files and transcode them smaller.

I've been using Don Melton's transcode-video scripts to transcode my video library for awhile now but what I really wanted was a simple way to batch transcode multiple files. This script does that.

Rename the files to be transcoded with a process tag. Add it at the end of the filename before the file extension with a .. So filename.process-tag.extension.

Example:

If you want to transcode this file:

/videos/movies/The Best Movie Evar.mkv

rename it accordingly:

/videos/movies/The Best Movie Evar.processme.mkv

^ That renamed file will be transcoded. The transcoded file will be saved as /videos/movies/The Best Movie Evar.mkv (the same place, same name as the origional). The origional file has the process-tag removed and moved to /videos/processed/movies/The Best Movie Evar.mkv.

Valid process tags:

• processme - choose the default encode, currently processmehw720
• processme1080 - use transcode-video's default settings at 1080p
• processme720 - use transcode-video's default settings at 720p
• processmehw1080 - use your computers hardware encoding (if available) at 1080p
• processmehw720 - use your computers hardware encoding (if available) at 720p

get-video-properties

Will return a video file's video properties.

ruby get-video-properties.rb /videos/movies/The Best Movie Evar.mkv will return something like:

/videos/movies/The Best Movie Evar.mkv => [
  {
    "codec_type": "video",
    "codec_name": "h264",
    "codec_long_name": "H.264 / AVC / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 part 10",
    "height": 808,
    "coded_height": 816
  }
]

My origional plan was to use this information to determine how to transcode a file because I wanted to keep a 1080 and 720 version of the file, to avoid transcoding whenever possible. Transcoding down to 720 on the fly is no longer an issue for me so I kept this code here as a neat example of what could be done.

get-all-file-types

Returns all of the file types in the target path (hardcoded in the script). Output looks like: extensions: [".mkv", ".mp4", ".jpg", ".srt", ".avi", ".txt", ".m4v", ".part", ".3gp", ".BUP", ".IFO", ".VOB", ".json", ".xml", ".ISO", ".divx", ".rar", ".mpg", ".mp3", ".docx"]

move-em-all

Moves files from one place to another. I used this once for something. It's kinda pointless but i wanted it to stick around if I ever used it again.