ffmpeg script help

[Plasma_NZ]

Ok here's what i want to achieve...

have some folders with avi files inside them, some of them have screwed up metadata, and couple that with vlc's current release there's a bug causing the files to be renamed to the metadata info.....

now... i have this found this to work

ffmpeg -i input.avi -metadata title="" -metadata author="" -metadata copyright="" -metadata comment="" -acodec copy -vcodec copy output.avi

I was wondering how to write a small script that would, scan through the folder, remove all files metadata and retain the original file-name using the above code, and if possible delete the old file that contains the screwed up metadata

[andrew.46]

Perhaps something like the following would work:

for i in *.avi
do 
ffmpeg -y -i $i acodec copy -vcodec copy \
       -metadata title="" -metadata author="" \
       -metadata copyright="" -metadata comment="" \
       $i
done

Just be aware that the -y option allows FFmpeg to overwrite the original file so I would test this first on a backup copy of your original .avi files to make sure it is exactly what you want.