transcode

Command-line utility for converting directories of audio/video format to run on a raspberry pi.

Example

transcode ~/Videos/Family ~/Videos/Vacation

• Creates directory: ~/Videos - Converted/
• Converts video/audio files in ~/Videos/Family to ~/Videos - Converted/Family
• Converts video/audio files in ~/Videos/Vacation to ~/Videos - Converted/Vacation

Features

• Shows progress for individual files and total progress
• Shows ETA for individual files and total ETA
• Takes directory as input, automatically identify audio/video files within.
• Copies files that are already in the target format instead of processing.

Formats

Currently the only target format is hardcoded and is:

Requirements

Motivation

I ran into the problem of having many video files of various formats that needed to run on a raspberry pi. So i needed a script to convert all of them for playback in a format that raspberry pi can run.

You could of course just loop through all the files. Though i found the following issues:

Problems:

• There is no ETA on when the script will finish.
• Files would be scattered in the file system.

So i decided i wanted to write a more specific program for the job.