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Ffmpeg command to encode ENTIRE DIRECTORY?

sumpm1 posted 2008 Sep 04 08:25

I am using ffmpeg from command line in Linux. I want to encode a bunch of audio files. I was wondering if anyone knows a ffmpeg command that will just encode everything in a given folder? Thanks

Baldrick posted 2008 Sep 04 08:53

Convert all files to mp3(you probably want to add some settings also): : for file in /folder/*; do `ffmpeg -i $file $file.mp3`;done edit: updated the code, this should work better.

Cazz posted 2008 Sep 27 08:40

Hi I trying to change the code a little because I want the output file create in a diffrent directory. but the file is whole address to the file so I have to somehow remove the old directory but not the filename /update to make it easy for me I just change the code a little : for file in *.avi; do `ffmpeg -i $file /newfolder/$file.avi`;done so now I just have to put the file in that folder of movie I want to convert and run :)

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