srsly » ffmpeg http://srsly.me Thu, 27 May 2010 02:37:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Batch Converting Files With FFmpeg and Ruby http://srsly.me/2009/11/29/batch-converting-files-with-ffmpeg-and-ruby/ http://srsly.me/2009/11/29/batch-converting-files-with-ffmpeg-and-ruby/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:33:04 +0000 Joseph Jaramillo http://srsly.me/?p=395 I recently needed to burn some video files (h.264 MKV) to DVD such that the disc would work in a standalone player. After an hour googling for a set of commands to pass to ffmpeg to convert my files, I then started looking for batch scripts. It occurred to me shortly thereafter that Ruby could help. I had found a command that worked beautifully with a single file, so all that was necessary was to automate it.

It only took one line to accomplish the task:

It’d be a cinch to generalize for input video format.

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