Remux if possible, if not, transcode all videos in a folder to MP4

[Airjrdn]

My understanding is that remuxing is a way to copy the video and audio from one container to another with no loss in quality and is fairly quick to do.

I'm wondering if there's a tool or script + tool(s) that will cycle through all videos in a folder (of varying containers/formats) and output them to MP4 so they are playable by pretty much all devices (both Apple and non-Apple). The trick is, I'd like the conversion to happen via remuxing if possible, and transcoding if not, to retain as much of the original quality as I can, not to mention making the process happen in days rather than months.

[Baldrick]

If you have lots of mkv then try mkv2mp4.


I haven't seen any such script for all formats though. It would be very complex....easier is just to reconvert all avi, wmv, flv to mp4 with vidcoder.

[Airjrdn]

Thanks for the reply.

I know it would be easier, but for a lot of them, quality would suffer, and to be honest, I would seriously expect it to take a very long time given the number amount of video it would be converting. I have about 2TB of video I'm looking to "convert".

I'm not opposed to doing a little scripting and using command line tools. I'm assuming there's a tool I can use (call from a script) to determine the format, then based on that, if it's a format I can remux, I call something like Xmedia Recode, passing it the necessary information, otherwise I call Handbrake passing it what it needs to encode.

It may be more complicated than that, but off the top of my head, those seem like the main steps.