ffmpeg utils

Introduction

These scripts can be useful when dealing with FFMPEG. I think some features are missing that is why these scripts are meant for. Or just because I am too lazy (or stupid) to remember the syntax, so I prefer to write it once and only once ^^.

Linux

Running scripts

You can run them in your terminal.

Please make the scripts executable. For instance :

chmod +x ffmpeg_compress.sh

Then, assuming you are in the folder containing the script :

./ffmpeg_compress.sh

for this example, this will compress all video files ("mp4", "avi", "mkv", "mov") with bitrate 500k. If you want another bitrate, please pass it as argument.

Using alias commands

To be able to call these scripts in whatever terminal at whatever current directory, I invite you to create some aliases. There are several ways of doing it. Here is mine : I have a .bash_aliases file close to my .bashrc file (see some explanations on askubuntu). And I have declared some aliases, for example

alias ffmpeg_compress='~/ffmpeg_compress.sh'