Hi fellow sailors,

i have lots of downloaded… ISOs… that i need to converto to save space. I would like to make them all of the same size, let’s say 720p, and same format, let’s say h265.

I am on linux and the… ISOs… are sorted into a neatly named hierarchy of sub-folderds, which i want to preserve too. What is the best tool (CLI) for the scope? I can use ffmpeg with a bash script, but is there anything better suited?

  • Lemmchen@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’ve heard that the size difference between 720p and 1080p for HEVC/h.265 is neglectable, so you should probably stick to 1080p for better quality.

    But honestly I think what you want to do is neither worth the effort nor is the result very desirable.

  • AnEilifintChorcra@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I’ve been using a for loop with ffmpeg to convert to AV1

    I start in the series root folder and it iterates through each seasons subfolder

    for f in ./**/*.mkv; do
      ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:v libsvtav1 -crf 0 "{f%.*}.av1.mkv"; done

    Since I’m happy with the quality of everything so far, I’ve added this to the start to make it easier to delete the old files

    for f in ./**/*.mkv; do
      mv "$f" "${f%.*}.xyz.mkv"; done

    And at the end I’ve added this to delete the old files

    for f in ./**/*.xyz.mkv; do
      rm " $f"; done