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Convert Flash Videos on a directory to MP4

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This will convert videos to MP4 that's optimized and plays on my phone. The said videos should be stored on a directory so this script could parse them.

Requires unstripped codecs from the Medibuntu repository (libavcodec-unstripped-52, libavdevice-unstripped-52, libavformat-unstripped-52, etc.) which contains the MP4 and libfaac Encoders. See: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1117283 and http://www.medibuntu.org/repository.php

This script also requires the libnotify1 package for the notify-send command (or you can just echo it, instead of using the desktop notification daemon)

Update the ffmpeg statement as needed, check the documentation at http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html

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  1. #!/bin/bash
  2.  
  3. ############################################################
  4. ## License: Public Domain
  5. ## Author: Dax Solomon Umaming
  6. ## 
  7. ## Save in ~/bin then execute on a directory
  8. ## with the videos you wish to convert
  9. ## 
  10. ## Take note that you'll need ffmpeg restricted libraries
  11. ## On Ubuntu, you can download and install them from the
  12. ## Medibuntu Repository at http://medibuntu.org/
  13. ## check the howtos for instruction on how to install them
  14. ## you'll need the *-unstripped and *-extra libraries
  15. ## 
  16. ## You'll also need to have libnotify1 package installed
  17. ## Since ffmpeg already outputs tons of messages on the
  18. ## terminal, the messages this script outputs will only
  19. ## be readable (or even usable) using the desktop
  20. ## notification daemon
  21. ## 
  22. ############################################################
  23.  
  24. # get filenames in a directory
  25. for origfilename in *
  26. do 
  27.  
  28. 	# skip mp4 files, since that is - afterall - our target file format
  29. 	if expr "$origfilename" : "\(.*\.[Mm][Pp]4$\)" > /dev/null 2>&1
  30.  
  31. 		then echo "Skipping $origfilename"
  32.  
  33. 	# process non-mp4 files
  34. 	else
  35. 		# placeholder to be utilized by the array
  36. 		newfilename=$origfilename
  37.  
  38. 		# set video file extensions in an array
  39. 		vidextensions=(flv avi mkv 3gp ogv m4v f4v)
  40.  
  41. 		# remove above-declared extensions from the file name
  42. 		for vidext in "${vidextensions[@]}"
  43. 		do
  44. 			newfilename=`echo $newfilename|sed 's/\.'${vidext[@]}'$//g'`
  45. 		done
  46.  
  47. 		# convert video files to mp4 format
  48. 		notify-send "Converting $origfilename to mp4"
  49. 		ffmpeg -i "$origfilename" -acodec libfaac -ac 2 -vcodec mpeg4 -r 25 -s qvga -metadata title="$newfilename" "$newfilename.mp4"
  50.  
  51. 	fi
  52.  
  53. done
  54. notify-send "Done converting all videos to MP4"

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