Watch the samba share for new videos with the .264 extension then mux them into a .mkv file playable by video players.

mux_cctv_video.sh

#!/bin/sh                               

#  apt-get install inotify-tools
#  apt-get install mkvtoolnix

WATCHED_DIR="/mnt/sda1/cctv/videos"

echo "Watching directory: $WATCHED_DIR for new files"
inotifywait -m -q -e create -r "$WATCHED_DIR" --format "%w%f" |
  while read file
  do

    case $file in 
      *264) 
        videoin="$file"
        videoout="$file".mkv

        mkvmerge -o $videoout --forced-track 0:no -d 0 -A -S -T --no-global-tags --no-chapters $videoin --track-order 0:0
 
        rm $file 

      ;;
      *) # do nothing
      ;;

    esac

  done