[vid shrinker] This shrinks videos. The result is a 320x240 mkv with xvid video and ogg audio. Good for putting on a device with a small screen and limited memory. #video #obsolete

shrinkMKV.sh

#!/bin/sh

while [ "$#" -ne 0 ]; do

EXT="${1##*.}"
FILENAME=`basename "$1" .${EXT}`
TMP=`mktemp`

ffmpeg -i "$1" -s 320x240 -vcodec xvid -an "${TMP}.avi"
ffmpeg -i "$1" -vn "${TMP}.wav"

oggenc -q 1 --downmix -o "${TMP}.ogg" "${TMP}.wav"

mkvmerge --title "${FILENAME}" -o "mini-${FILENAME}.mkv" "${TMP}.avi" "${TMP}.ogg"
rm ${TMP}*

shift

done