FFMPEG batch video convert?

[babujbf]

Hi guys I got a folder full of different avi files and I want to convert them to mpegs or if possible flv. I want to convert them exactly as they are I dont want to alter the video quality or anything, I saw the commands to do conversions one by one but I want to convert like 50. How can I do this?

Thanks

I also have Mplayer I read you can do conversions with mplayer too?

[bumanie]

You could try winff - not sure whether it will convert more than one file at a time. It is basically a gui for ffmpeg.

[FakeOutdoorsman]

Hi guys I got a folder full of different avi files and I want to convert them to mpegs or if possible flv. I want to convert them exactly as they are I dont want to alter the video quality or anything, I saw the commands to do conversions one by one but I want to convert like 50. How can I do this?

Thanks

I also have Mplayer I read you can do conversions with mplayer too?

The find command is the perfect tool for this:
Linux Basics: A gentle introduction to 'find' [ubuntuforums.org]

Example to convert all *.avi to *.mp4 in the ~/encode folder:

find ~/encode -name '*.avi' -type f -exec ffmpeg -i '{}' -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ab 128k -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -crf 24 -threads 0 '{}'.mp4 \;

[cotcot]

This was useful for me. Thanks. The output gives files names with double extention .MTS.mpg (I am batch converting MTS to mpg with mencoder).
Any suggestion how to keep .MTS (in your example .avi) out of the output file name ?

[babujbf]

That command didn't work for me... where do I have to run it? DO I have to cd to the file containing the avis? Cause it says file not found.

By the way how would I convert avis without decreasing quality of video or audio and convert them to mpeg?

Thanks for the replies.

[andrew.46]

Hi cotcot,

Any suggestion how to keep .MTS (in your example .avi) out of the output file name ?

I wrestled with the find syntax + sed for some time and failed fairly miserably . However if it is a single folder with avi files that you are dealing with the following variation of Fakeoutdoorsman's syntax using a for loop will work:

for i in *.avi
do 
	ffmpeg -i $i \
	-acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ab 128k \
	-vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -crf 24 -threads 0 \
	$(echo $i | sed 's/\.avi$//').mp4 
done

This effectively creates a file called outfile.mp4 rather than outfile.avi.mp4 and can be used in a script or as a simple copy and paste job. Somebody more skilled that me should be able to weave this into a proper find search .

Andrew

Edit: I guess I should mention that this fails if there are spaces in the filenames...

[FakeOutdoorsman]

That command didn't work for me... where do I have to run it? DO I have to cd to the file containing the avis? Cause it says file not found.

My find example looked for files in the encode directory which is in my home directory (the ~/ is the same as typing /home/fakeoutdoorsman/). Alternatively you could navigate to your target directory and then run:

find . -name '*.avi' -type f -exec ffmpeg -i '{}' -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ab 128k -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -crf 24 -threads 0 '{}'.mp4 \;

By the way how would I convert avis without decreasing quality of video or audio and convert them to mpeg?

You can't convert to a lossy format such as mpeg without loss of quality. If you explain what you are trying perhaps a better format can be used.

[mc4man]

Solely in terms of the 'double' ext. (with or without spaces in name), and using a 'for' then something like this gives same filename w/ 1 ext.

((with the for and wildcard *, you must be at the dir. prompt where files are.
Alternate save paths, if desired, go directly in front of "${f%.avi}.mp4"

for f in *.avi; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ab 128k -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -crf 24 -threads 0 "${f%.avi}.mp4"; done

[andrew.46]

Hi mc4man,

Solely in terms of the 'double' ext. (with or without spaces in name), and using a 'for' then something like this gives same filename w/ 1 ext.[...]

for f in *.avi; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -ab 128k -vcodec libx264 -vpre hq -crf 24 -threads 0 "${f%.avi}.mp4"; done

Very nice! I officially withdraw my gratuitous use of sed .

Andrew

[cotcot]

Any idea why this command is a no go ? (I am in the folder with these two .MTS files).

for f in *.MTS; do mencoder “$f” -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=1920:1080,harddup -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=8000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:threads=4 -vf lavcdeint -ofps 25 -fps 50 -o "${f%.MTS}.mpg"; done
MEncoder SVN-r29123-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
File not found: '“00119.MTS”'
Failed to open “00119.MTS”.
Cannot open file/device.

Exiting...
MEncoder SVN-r29123-4.3.3 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
File not found: '“00126.MTS”'
Failed to open “00126.MTS”.
Cannot open file/device.

The following command works fine however with the double extension :

find ~/encode -name '*.MTS' -type f -exec mencoder '{}' -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd -vf scale=1920:1080,harddup -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=8000:keyint=15:aspect=16/9:threads=4 -vf lavcdeint -ofps 25 -fps 50 -o '{}'.mpg \;