Encode a directory using the systems ffmpeg.
- Make sure ffmpeg is installed on your system.
- Download latest release from the releases tab.
- Unpack the archive using
tar -xf [downloaded archive goes here]. - Run
sh ./install.shfrom a terminal in the extracted folder. - If your shell can't find it, that probably means the default binary location (~/.local/bin) isn't in your path.
- If this is the case please either add the location to your path or run with
~/.local/bin/encodedir.
- The default config use hevc_nvenc as the encoder. If your system doesn't have an nvidia gpu with nvenc, edit the config file to use an encoder like hevc_vaapi (for systems, that support vaapi) or just the cpu encoder (libx265).
- Install a rust toolchain for your system. (Only linux is tested and I probably won't add config locations that work with windows for a while).
- Compile with
cargo build --release.- (Optional) strip binary with
strip target/release/encodedir.
- (Optional) strip binary with
- Move file to a location in your path (Ex. /usr/bin or $HOME/.local/bin (AKA ~/.local/bin)).
- Use with
encodedir [Path to directory].
- Usage information is available using
encodedir --help
- The config file is location at
$HOME/.config/encodedir.toml(AKA~/.config/encodedir.toml).- Configure command args (Like switching from nvidia nvenc to vaapi or cpu encoding).
- Configure what files encodedir sees as video files, incase you don't have your files in an MKV, MP4 or MOV container.