I wrote this script a few weeks ago to automatically convert video's to the right format for my DLNA-enabled tv. It creates directories for new "series". Videoconvertpath is the path where you will store your video's waiting to be converted, videooutputpath is the path where the converted video's will be stored. Any directory after videoconvertpath is treated as a new "series", so it creates a new directory in the outputpath. For example, /mnt/opslag/server/mediaconvert/Scrubs/ScrubsSe01Ep02.mkv would be converted to /mnt/opslag/server/media/Scrubs/ScrubsSe01Ep02.avi 3000kb video-bitrate, mp3 audio codec, xvid video, etc.
Subtitles in the same directory as the input with the same name-extension+.srt are copied as well. So if the file /mnt/opslag/server/mediaconvert/Scrubs/ScrubsSe01Ep02.srt exists, it gets copied to /mnt/opslag/server/media/Scrubs/ScrubsSe01Ep02.srt.
You might need to change the script a bit to work for your situation, for example, if you don't want to specify a vtag(fourcc), you should change "call(['ffmpeg','-i',i,'-vcodec',videocodec,'-vtag', videotag,'-acodec',audiocodec,'-ac','2','-b:v',videobitrate,'-y',path.join(outputpath,outputname)+'.'+outputcontainer])" to "call(['ffmpeg','-i',i,'-vcodec',videocodec,'-acodec',audiocodec,'-ac','2','-b:v',videobitrate,'-y',path.join(outputpath,outputname)+'.'+outputcontainer])", and the same with the other call line(there are two, just delete ",-vtag,videotag").
You can specify (one or multiple) files, directories, or a comination of the two.
#!/usr/bin/env python2
#Change this:
videoconvertpath='/mnt/opslag/server/mediaconvert/'
videooutputpath='/mnt/opslag/server/media/Video/'
videocodec='mpeg4'
videotag='xvid'
videobitrate='3000k'
audiocodec='libmp3lame'
outputcontainer='avi'
supportedcontainers=['mkv','avi','mov','ts']
#End of variables, start of code
for arg in argv[1:]:
arg=path.abspath(arg)
print(arg)
if not path.exists(arg):
print("Path doesn't exist. Exiting...")
exit(1)
if not path.splitext(arg)[1][1:] in supportedcontainers:
print("Unsupported file. Exiting...")
exit(1)
if path.isfile(arg):
series=path.dirname(arg.split(videoconvertpath)[1])
elif path.isdir(arg):
series=path.dirname(arg.split(videoconvertpath)[1]+'/')
outputpath=path.join(videooutputpath,series)
if series!='' and not path.exists(outputpath):
call(['mkdir','-p', '%s'%outputpath])
if path.isfile(arg):
outputname=path.splitext(path.basename(arg))[0]
if path.isfile(path.splitext(arg)[0]+'.srt'):
call(['cp',path.splitext(arg)[0]+'.srt',path.join(outputpath,outputname)+'.srt'])
call(['ffmpeg','-i',arg,'-vcodec',videocodec,'-vtag', videotag,'-acodec',audiocodec,'-ac','2','-b:v',videobitrate,'-y',path.join(outputpath,outputname)+'.'+outputcontainer])
elif path.isdir(arg):
files=listdir(arg)
todo=[]
for i in files:
i=path.abspath(path.join(arg,i))
if path.splitext(i)[1][1:] in supportedcontainers:
todo.append(path.join(arg,i))
outputname=path.splitext(path.basename(i))[0]
if path.isfile(path.splitext(i)[0]+'.srt'):
call(['cp',path.splitext(i)[0]+'.srt',path.join(outputpath,outputname)+'.srt'])
call(['ffmpeg','-i',i,'-vcodec',videocodec,'-vtag', videotag,'-acodec',audiocodec,'-ac','2','-b:v',videobitrate,'-y',path.join(outputpath,outputname)+'.'+outputcontainer])
(Moved this post from "Software discussion" because I actually meant to place it here, but somehow ended up posting it there)
