Script to convert video files to a format that an iPad v1 is able to play

toipad

#!/bin/bash
#
# This is the script I use to convert video files to a format 
#  that my iPad 1 is able to play
#
# You use this script like this
# toipad [-o <output folder>] [FILE]...
# where 
#   -o <outputfolder> is optional and tells the destination folder for converted files
#
#   [FILE] is the list of files to convert. Wildcards are accepted
#

# Default output folder
OUTFOLDER="./"

# These are the arguments I use for ffmpeg
FFMPEGARGS="-acodec aac -ac 2 -strict experimental -ab 160k -vcodec libx264 -r 30 -preset slow -profile:v baseline -level 30 -maxrate 10000000 -bufsize 10000000 -keyint_min 25 -f mp4 -threads 0 -y "

if [ "$1" = "-o" ]
then
  shift
  OUTFOLDER=$1"/"
  shift
fi

# loop over all arguments
until [ -z "$1" ]
do
  INPUTFILE=$(basename "$1")
  # Remove file extension assuming it is what is after the last dot in the filename
  FILENAME=$(echo $INPUTFILE | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//')
  # Removes everything after the opening parenthesis or bracket and replaces 
  # remaining dots with spaces
  OUTFILE=$(echo $FILENAME | sed "s/\[.*$//g" | sed -r "s/\(.*$//g" | sed "s/\./ /g" )
  # The resulting file will always have .mp4 extension
  OUTPUTFILE=$OUTFOLDER${OUTFILE%.*}".mp4"
  # And here is the complete command line
  SCRIPTFLAGS="ffmpeg -i \"$1\" $FFMPEGARGS \"$OUTPUTFILE\""
  eval $SCRIPTFLAGS
  shift
done

exit