I have a fuck pile of videos I need to transcode that range from MKV MP4 MPV and WEBM. I thought I could use Handbrake but… Well I’ve never used it before.
I would use VLC but its been buggy for some reason…
Take a look at ffmpeg. It’s a command line tool, thus also making automation easy.
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Well, change that. It’s great!
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Can I use handbreak to transcode video files to audio files?
To audio? Hmmm, I don’t think so. At least I would not know how.
But that should absolutely work with VLC.
VLC is really buggy rn though 3: I’d have to do it in windows.
Oh, c’mon! Don’t be silly.
When I try to convert a holy shit amount of files in VLC, actually anything more than 3, either it will crash, loop on one file, or make the entire library explode. There isn’t much I can really do about it.
just use ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i videofolder/* -q:a 0 -map a videofolder/*.mp3
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I’ve written python scripts in the past to do batch conversions using ffmpeg, rename files etc. Same idea as a shell script but slightly saner language, if you’re so inclined. Even works on Windows.