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FFMPEG Transcoder Script
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ffmpeg.h264.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2014 Typomedia Foundation. All rights reserved.
# Released under GPL version 3.
#
# FFMPEG Transcoder Script v1.2
EXEC=/usr/bin/ffmpeg
INPUT=/mnt/media/Movies
FTYPE=*.rip.mkv
SUFFIX=.h264.mkv
# check if script is not running
if ! ps x | grep '[/]ffmpeg.h264.sh' > /dev/null
cd $INPUT
# Transcode all files with the specified FTYPE
for FILE in $FTYPE
# transcode video stream and copy all audio streams and all subtitles
do $EXEC -i "$FILE" -map 0 -c:v libx264 -preset slow -tune film -crf 20 -c:a copy -c:s copy "$FILE${SUFFIX}"
done
fi
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More options for encoding you will find here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/x264EncodingGuide

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