ffenmass 0.2.2

CLI Utility to encode and recreate whole directories with ffmpeg.

FFenmass

FFenmass is an FFmpeg python wrapper to manipulate media files in directories enmass and recreate them recursively, inspired by h265ize. Currently works in Linux folder structures only.

Dependencies

ffmpeg

Yeah you pretty much need Python 3 and ffmpeg installed.Ideally ,moving forward with this project I will try to keep it that way.

Installation

pip3 install ffenmass

Usage

ffenmass is transparent above ffmpeg, this means most ffmpeg syntax can be used with ffenmass as is.

The only differences being the input (-i) and the output being directories instead of files. Also because ffenmass ignores file extensions, you will need to specifify container using ffmpeg's -f argument.

ffenmass will encode all video files detected under the input directory with the provided ffmpeg arguments and output them with the same folder structure and filenames in the output directory.

Example compared to standard ffmpeg syntax

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -acodec copy -vcodec libx265 -b:v 2M -minrate 1M -maxrate 3M -preset medium out.mp4


ffenmass -i /path/to/folder/ -acodec copy -vcodec libx265 -b:v 2M -minrate 1M -maxrate 3M -preset medium -f mp4 /output/directory/

Directory Tree visualization of what is going on when you run the command from the example above.

path/to/folder/                           /output/directory/
├── givemefolders                         ├── givemefolders      
│   ├── somefolder                        │   ├── somefolder
│   │   └── example_movie.mkv             │   │   └── example_movie.mp4
│   ├── myfavvideo.mkv                    │   ├── myfavvideo.mp4  
│   ├── example_movie.m2ts                │   ├── example_movie.mp4
│   ├── another_example.mkv         →     │   ├── another_example.mp4
│   ├── morefolders                       │   ├── morefolders
│   │   └── a_lot_of_examples.ts          │   │   └── a_lot_of_examples.mp4  
│   └── documentary.mkv                   │   └── documentary.mp4
├── another_example.mkv                   ├── another_example.mp4
├── more-examples.mp4                     ├── more-examples.mp4 
└── examples_and_examples.ts              └── examples_and_examples.mp4

Make sure your input/output directories have a trailing /

/path/to/directory   #Is not a valid input

/path/to/directory/  #Is a valid input

Contributing

Open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Check out the changelogs for notes and todos.

License

MIT