Video converter for compressing large videos from camera to x264.

avi2mp4.sh

#!/bin/bash
# author: Jan Vojt

path="$1"
br="1200k"
res="1280x720"
vcodec="libx264"

if [ -z "$path" ]; then
        echo "Please enter path as first argument."
        exit
fi

find "$path" -iname "*.avi" | while read vid; do
        fname=`echo "$vid" | grep -o ".*\\." | sed 's/\.$//'`
        fext=`echo "$vid" | grep -o "\\.[^\\.]*$"`

        outname="${fname}-${res}-${br}.mp4"
        if [ -s "$outname" ]; then
                echo "Skipping $outname, already exists."
        else
                ffmpeg -i "$vid" -vb $br -s $res -vcodec $vcodec "$outname" < /dev/null
        fi
done