ffmpegbatch-processingos-agnostic

How do you convert an entire directory with ffmpeg?

How do you convert an entire directory/folder with ffmpeg via command line or with a batch script?

Solution

  • Previous answer will only create 1 output file called out.mov. To make a separate output file for each old movie, try this.

    for i in *.avi;
  do name=`echo "$i" | cut -d'.' -f1`
  echo "$name"
  ffmpeg -i "$i" "${name}.mov"
done