Avi to wmv script across Home Dirs?

[daveyboy]

Did someone have a script to convert avi to wmv (using ffmpeg - I think!) that recurses into sub folders? - I can vagley remember someones post about running it on user areas.

 

Can I find that post? - no. Hummm, must be searching for the wrong thing. Should have gone to a well known high st opticians.

 

If you have, would you care to share?..

 

Ta muchly.............

[mac_shinobi]

Did someone have a script to convert avi to wmv (using ffmpeg - I think!) that recurses into sub folders? - I can vagley remember someones post about running it on user areas.

 

Can I find that post? - no. Hummm, must be searching for the wrong thing. Should have gone to a well known high st opticians.

 

If you have, would you care to share?..

 

Ta muchly.............

 

If you go to google and type the following or something along the lines of the below

 

avi to wmv site:EduGeek.net

 

search text at the start with a space then the word site with : directly afterwards ie site: then the url of the site you want to search for so in this case EduGeek.net

 

that way it will search for anything that is related to avi to wmv on edugeek.

 

something like below

 

Google

 

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/av-multimedia-related/39694-convert-xvid-avi-windows-media-9-a.html

[srochford]

Something like this will recurse the folders and process them.

 

I use this to transcode files on my media PC from .ts to .mp4 but the principle is the same - you'll just need to get the right ffmpeg line!

 

It assumes you're going to convert files under C:\recordings - I'd guess yours will be something like d:\homedirs\year7

 

It writes a log to c:\temp\transcode.log

 

It assumes you want an mp4 file - change the line at the top to whatever it needs to be

 

It looks for .ts files to transcode; change that to whatever extension you're transcoding from.

 

There's a commented out line at the end to delete the input file; I really, really wouldn't do this - YMMV but I find ffmpeg often fails to complete the transcoding. You're then left with a zero byte output file and no input file if you auto-delete. (I think the problems I have is because the MPG2 transport stream that you record from Freeview is not perfect so this may not be a problem for you)

 

const sLog="c:\temp\transcode.log"
const sExtension=".mp4"
const sRecordings="c:\recordings"

set oShell=createobject("wscript.shell")
set oFSO=createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")
if not ofso.fileexists(sLog) then
 set oLog=ofso.createtextfile(sLog)
else
 set oLog=ofso.opentextfile(sLog,8)
end if

set oFolder=ofso.getfolder(sRecordings)
for each osubFolder in oFolder.subfolders
 for each oFile in oSubFolder.files
   Encode oFile
 next
next
for each oFile in oFolder.files
 encode oFile
next

oLog.close


sub Encode(oFile)
 sExt=lcase(oFso.getextensionname(oFile))
 if sExt="ts" then
   sTitle=ofso.getbasename(oFile)
   sInput=oFile.parentfolder & "\" & oFile.name
   sOutput=oFile.parentfolder & "\" & sTitle & ".mp4"
   if not ofso.fileexists(sOutput) then
     oLog.writeline now & "~" & sTitle
     sCmd="c:\utils\ffmpeg.exe -i """ & sInput & """ -b 384k -s qvga -r 25 -aspect 4:3 -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec libfaac -ab 112k -ac 2 """ & sOutput & """"
     oLog.writeline sCmd
     oShell.run sCmd,,true

    'this line is destructive!!!
    'ofso.deletefile sInput,true
    'the line above is destructive!!!

   end if
 end if
end sub

[daveyboy]

Steve, thank you very much - I will be looking at this later today.