Bash to fire off ffmpeg encoder to initiate encoding. Built for icrontab and inotify purpose. Will encode any media file the same directory where this script resides in.

faron-fire-ffmpeg.sh

#!/bin/bash
if [ ! -d bye ]
     then
         mkdir bye
fi
if [ ! -d lib ]
     then
         mkdir lib
fi
file=$(find ./ -type f ! -name "ffmpeg*" | sort | head -1)
ffile="out.mp4"
ffcomp=$(cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 16 | head -n 1)
ffbye="bye/"
fflib="lib/"

if [ "$(ls -A)" ]; then
	## ACTION IF MEDIA FILE IS PRESENTED IN DIRECTORY

#2 PASSES ENCOIDNG ## TRIM TO 640X360 | PRESENT MEDIUM | X264 | AAC ###
ffmpeg -y -i "$file" -c:v libx264 -s 640x360 -preset medium -b:v 555k -pass 1 -an -f mp4 "$ffile" < /dev/null 

ffmpeg -i "$ffile" -c:v libx264 -preset medium -b:v 555k -pass 2 -c:a libfdk_aac -b:a 128k "lib/$ffcomp" < /dev/null

mv "$file" "$ffbye"
rm "$ffile"
     else
echo "no files to covert"
exit 0
fi
./fireffmpeg.sh
exit 0