Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 06:16:12AM -0600 schrieb Dale: > >>>> What does it try to do in simple terms? Or, how would I use it may be a >>>> better question? >>> Look at my mail from 23.10., it has a textual description (the one with the >>> file tree): it basically wraps the old script over all files. >>> >>> You have a directory 'A' with videos and a subdirectory 'A/temp' with new >>> videos. Start the script in A and it will go through all files in A/temp and >>> ask you what to do with each – skip (do nothing), keep (move to A without >>> renaming), or overwrite a certain file in A (keeping the extension), which >>> is >>> the same as the old script. >> OK. I think I get it. It's kinda like dispatch-conf except it is for >> files not lines in a file. No 'merge' option tho. Kinda hard to merge a >> video. lol >> >> I may try that sometime. I may copy the files to a different location >> just in case I screw up something. It won't be the real files so no harm >> if I botch it. > Always have a backup. ;-) > I deny any responsibility for data loss. :-P > > If you want to try it before doing real stuff: you could comment the two > lines where it says 'mv -f' and 'rm -f'. Then it won’t do anything, but > there are still progress messages being printed.
I update my backups every week. I'm going to order another hard drive in a couple weeks. I'm looking at a 16TB. I've got to build a rig so I can use LVM on two drives. That 16TB won't last long with this new fiber internet. I still wish I could back up a large directory and split it into two parts. Have one part be directories starting with A through L and second one start with M and go through to Z. That would roughly split it into two pieces. Then I could use two drives for that directory. I use rsync but don't know of a way to split it. My biggest concern, I may do the wrong thing and mess up something. I have some videos that are hard to find. >> P. S. Now I'm trying to figure out how to change the resolution of all >> videos in a directory. Usually going from 1080p to 720p. If you have a >> script for that, awesome. > I use ffmpeg for all my encoding stuff, and have been using wrapper scripts > for years now to make things easier. However, none of them has resized yet. > It’s not difficult to configure, but the wrapper needs much more logic. As > in: find out the current resolution, see if it is actually larger, then > calculate the new resolution while keeping the aspect intact and so on. > I found commands for it but not a way to process lots of videos. Right now, I use the queue feature of handbrake. I set up a preset to make it the same each time. I set it to 720p and about 3MB data rate. Should be OK for my 32" TV. >> I'm currently using handbrake and it works but there may be a better way. > I know handbrake by name, have been aware of it for many a year, but never > used it. In my Windows days I used VirtualDub for my editing stuff, and on > Linux I’ve always used commandline tools, beginning with mencoder back in > the day. > I tried Kdenlive but couldn't figure it out. It may work better but if I can't figure it out, it isn't much help. lol Dale :-) :-)
