Script to run handbrake on an entire folder
UPDATED 8-10-10:
This script has been superceeded by its newer version at http://www.surlyjake.com/2010/08/script-to-run-handbrake-recursively-through-a-folder-tree/. The new version features all of the previous features, but can also traverse recursively through a folder structure.
#!/bin/bash
if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
TRANSCODEDIR="."
else
TRANSCODEDIR="$1"
fi
for file in "$TRANSCODEDIR"/*
do
HandBrakeCLI -i "${file}" -o "${file}.mp4" --preset="iPhone & iPod Touch"""
doneSave that into a .sh file like “handbrakefolder.sh”
Thank you soooooooo much !
This is great, thank you! A technical question though… how would I adjust the shell script so that I can run it in the directory itself and not need to add any arguments;
ie. cd into Videos and run
hostname% ~/bin/handbrakefolder.sh
oh, I renamed the script and placed it in my ~/bin folder, chmod +x ‘ed to make it an executable, so now I can do:
hostname% cd Videos
hostname% handbrakefolder .
Almost perfect
I updated the script to automatically use “.” and process the present directory if no argument is specified.
Thanks for the updated version!!