Handbrake batch processing help - Linux

[antoainb]

So, I decided to give up trying to get a HDD that was in a Linux system to work on Windows and decided I'd use it with Linux. The HDD is full of uncompressed footage imported from Mini-DV cassetes, and it takes up a very big amount of space, like 12.4GB per hour of SD footage. I decided I'd run it all through Handbrake, I installed it on Linux, but there's a problem. While in the Windows version there is a button to add all of the files to the queue on the Linux on there isn't, and I don't want to have to sit there and click add to queue on 20 files, do you know a way of adding all of them to the queue? I've checked the buttons and I couldn't find anything. Another thing, in the Windows version when you select a directory to convert files to it sticks to it, but when I add videos on the Linux version the directory always resets to the Videos folder...

 

Thanks!

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Use the CLI version. it is very simple. You could easily write a script to loop through them.

 

Alternatively you could use ffmpeg. There are lots of GUIs availible, but again the CLI version is simple to use. it is a little more complex than handbrake though.

[antoainb]

Use the CLI version. it is very simple. You could easily write a script to loop through them.

 

Alternatively you could use ffmpeg. There are lots of GUIs availible, but again the CLI version is simple to use. it is a little more complex than handbrake though.

 

I'll try that.