Handbrake is a fantastic tool for (among other uses), converting videos into mobile formats. It is extremely easy to use and can usually get a video properly converted in just a few clicks. To get Videos encoded for use on my phone, I use the "iPhone & iPod Touch" preset. It …

I was bored... So this is a little bash script i wrote that will write zero's to a hard disk infinately until you press CTRL+C. It uses dcfldd instead of plain dd because i like the progress output it provides.

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UPDATED 8-10-10: This script has been superceeded by its newer version at http://www.surlyjake.com/blog/2010/08/10/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.

{% codeblock handbrake.sh %}

!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ] ; then TRANSCODEDIR="." else …