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Best way to re-encode my video collection?
Foomy
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So I have I couple of Tb of movie/tv rips from dvds I own, but it's eating up a ton of space on my NAS.
Looking for the best way to re-encode them all into h.264, and then preferably have it delete the old files as it goes along, as I don't have enough free space to keep both sets of files at the same time.
And I would like it to be as automated as possible, as I know it's going to take days to process all the files, so if I can just start it, forget about it and look a few days later, that would be awesome.
I looked a little bit at handbrake, but it only seems to be able to load up a single folder of files at once, and won't look into sub-folders, maybe I just didn't look at the right options or something.
Looking for the best way to re-encode them all into h.264, and then preferably have it delete the old files as it goes along, as I don't have enough free space to keep both sets of files at the same time.
And I would like it to be as automated as possible, as I know it's going to take days to process all the files, so if I can just start it, forget about it and look a few days later, that would be awesome.
I looked a little bit at handbrake, but it only seems to be able to load up a single folder of files at once, and won't look into sub-folders, maybe I just didn't look at the right options or something.
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Handbrake is a frontend to a lot of command line apps, so you could write your own script which would find files as you want and recompress/delete them in the order you want.
But I just remembered I had a spare 500gb drive in my old computer, so i figure I can use that and just do it in a few batches, and just do the final deleting and moving of the files myself.
I was doing some more searching about the topic and ran across WinFF as a decent looking gui front end for ffmpeg, it looks like it should do what I need. But anyone used it before, or have an opinion on how well it works?
I'm just surprised I haven't found a good solution in my searching yet, I can find things that sort of do the job, but nothing that I can just point at my network drive on the NAS and say "hey, re-encode all that, I'll be back in a week to check"
If it really is my only option I can always just add each folder to the handbrake queue, I was just hoping someone knew of a script/program/something that could load up files from a folder and all it's sub folders for encoding.
that looks to do what I would want only that one is for linux, but it did lead me to a similar script for powershell (I totally forget this existed) that should do the same thing on windows. Just need to do some test runs to see if I can get it the outputs right.
anyone know what a good handbrake preset would be to try first?
for /R %%a in (*.mkv) do HandbrakeCLI -i "%%a" -o "D:\Encodes\%%~na.m4v" --preset="AppleTV 2"
I use the Apple TV 2 preset because, well, I have a lot of apple stuff. You can pick another preset if you find one that works better.
find -exec avconv -i "{}" -s 480x320 -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec aac -strict -2 -ac 1 -ar 16000 -r 13 -ab 32000 -aspect 3:2 {}.mp4 \; -exec rm {} \;
The above is what I use to encode really small videos suitable for viewing on my android phone. It will delete the source video after conversion so if you don't want to do that then remove the "-exec rm {} \;" from the end.
If you just have windows then you can install ubuntu in a virtual machine (virtualbox) for free, then share a folder with the host machine and put your video in that. May be more than you want to deal with at this point though.