Automatic Handbrake Encoder

[TheGermanEngie]

Hi all - 

 

I watched the LTT video of how their workflow is ingested and converted to a final output file to upload to Youtube. It got me thinking, how could I could write some sort of script for my Linux box using FFMpeg/Handbrake or whatever to automatically convert a video file, say a 4K .mov file to a 1080p compressed MP4 file when the directory detects a new .mov file is imported into a certain directory?

 

For example, EposVox has a similar demonstration using FFMpeg for his compression scripts. I'll link the video at the specific time.

 

For reference, my box is running Lubuntu 19.04.

 

https://youtu.be/eBTWSnSTWRA?t=315

 

Thank you all!

[WereCatf]

33 minutes ago, TheGermanEngie said:

It got me thinking, how could I could write some sort of script for my Linux box using FFMpeg/Handbrake or whatever to automatically convert a video file, say a 4K .mov file to a 1080p compressed MP4 file when the directory detects a new .mov file is imported into a certain directory?

You can use dnotify to execute a command when a new file is written into a directory.

[TheMcCook]

I've been using Handbrake Batch Beast for most of a year and love it.

You point it to a folder and it monitors it and converts based on whatever preset you have selected.

https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/HBBatchBeast