Handbrake Script

**darthrax** · May 3rd, 2010

Hi All,

Scripting after some time now... I've recently started watching videos on my iPhone and have come to the realization that theres no really easy way (I mean mostly automatic) of ripping files. I tried Artista Transcoder and Handbrake. They're both good programs but I've got more experience with handbrake so i wrote a little right-click script for nautilus which rips videos into whatever format you want based on the presets.

to install handbrake from the ppa: (only works for 9.10 & 10.04 check the ppa for a how to on installing in earlier versions)

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:handbrake-ubuntu/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli

Copy the following code into a file and place it into ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts folder

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# Right-click video ripper for HandBrakeCLI
# Owner: 
#   Anand Kapre
#   ak@anandkapre.com
# Licence: GNU GPL
# Copyright (C) Anand Kapre
# Dependency:
#   HandBrakeCLI
# Created on Tuesday May 4th 2010
# Tested on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, 10.04 Lucid Lynx

# Uncomment the preset of your choice below
#ripto="Universal"
#ripto="iPod"
#ripto="AppleTV"
#ripto="Normal"
#ripto="High Profile"
#ripto="Classic"
#ripto="AppleTV Legacy"
#ripto="iPhone Legacy"
#ripto="iPod Legacy"
ripto="iPhone & iPod Touch"

folder=$(pwd)
for arg in "$@"
do
pid=$(pidof HandBrakeCLI)
if [ $pid -gt 0 ] ;
then
  sleep 5
else
gnome-terminal --geometry=75x10 -x HandBrakeCLI --preset "$ripto" -i $folder/"$arg" -o $folder/"$arg".mp4 && sleep 5
fi
done

hope this helps someone...enjoy

**K.Mandla** · May 4th, 2010

Moved to Multimedia and Video.

**jmoorse** · May 18th, 2010

FYI this doesn't work if there are spaces in the path.

editing: $folder/"$arg" to "$folder"/"$arg" did the trick

**Paresh** · May 18th, 2010

If you have zenity installed, you can try

Code:

ripto=$(zenity  --list  --text "Choose the format to rip to .." --radiolist  --column "Pick" --column "Opinion" TRUE Universal FALSE iPod FALSE AppleTV FALSE Normal FALSE "High Profile" FALSE "Classic" FALSE "AppleTV Legacy" FALSE "iPhone Legacy" FALSE "iPod Legacy" FALSE "iPhone & iPod Touch");

to give you a nice selection dialog.

If you want zenity, it's in the repository

Code:

sudo apt-get install zenity

**iceman2k3** · September 16th, 2010

Hi thanks a lot for the script!

little hack for subtitile :

Code:

# subtitle
file_name=$arg
file_title=`echo $file_name|sed 's/\..\{3\}$//'`

if [ -e ${file_title}.srt ]
then
gnome-terminal --geometry=75x10 -x HandBrakeCLI --preset "$ripto" -i $folder/"$arg" -o $folder/"$file_title".mp4 -srt-file ${file_title}.srt --srt-lang fra && sleep 5
else
gnome-terminal --geometry=75x10 -x HandBrakeCLI --preset "$ripto" -i $folder/"$arg" -o $folder/"$file_title".mp4 && sleep 5
fi

I've add $file_title var to strip out .avi at the end of the ouput (movie.mp4 instead of movie.avi.mp4)