A watch directory for encoding videos

z1lt0id · 2013-12-04 23:44:30

I was wondering what would be the best way to go about making a watch directory routine in bash. Essentially i want a bash script to watch a directory and when a file is added it will automatically encode using ffmpeg and x264? Are there any external utilities to help with this function?

karol · 2013-12-04 23:51:58

Use inotify?

tomk · 2013-12-05 00:09:23

Indeed. Personally, I use incron, because it's an elegant way of using inotify.

Also, I use mencoder instead of ffmpeg, but each to their own.

z1lt0id · 2013-12-05 00:10:40

I just found mencoder doesn't utilise the cores properly when deinterlacing and piping to x264 I got better performance. I'll look into incron tomk, thank you so much.

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graysky · 2013-12-05 00:11:58

Slightly O/T but do people prefer mencoder to handbrake?

z1lt0id · 2013-12-05 00:16:41

I prefer piping ffmpeg into x264. I use ffmpeg for filtering and resizing options and push it out to x264. Handbrake is good though

tomk · 2013-12-05 00:32:32

graysky wrote:

Slightly O/T but do people prefer mencoder to handbrake?

People might, but I don't, simply because handbrake doesn't do what I want.

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#1 2013-12-04 23:44:30

A watch directory for encoding videos

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