AviDemux batch script

[jakhazell]

Hi, I just found avidemux this morning after looking for days for a decent video converter for OSX. I have a large collection of mkv files and I change them to mp4 files by copying the h.246 video and converting the audio to aac 128kbs but seeing as I have over 100 files to convert, It's extremely tedious converting them 1 by 1. So I was wondering if there is a batch script I can use to automate the process. Obviously I'm a complete noob when it comes to scripting and I cant for the life of me work out what any of the tutorials are on about. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[MilesAhead]

I would look at the scripting only example here:
http://www.avidemux.org/admWiki/doku.php?id=tutorial:batch_processing

My advice would be to cut an input file into a few short pieces as test input.
(Maybe 5 minute clips.)

Edit the script to get the type of output you want. From the looks of it you'd just
need to change container to "MP4" from AVI and delete the line about the XVid codec plugin.

Try it. Someone else doing it is going to have to do the test same as you. Where the tool already supports scripting it's unlikely anyone will write a batch tool for it. I didn't find any when searching.

I don't know anything about OSX. The script has a variable to set it Unix or Windows compatible(slash or backslash) but I don't know what OSX uses. Is it a Unix derivative? If so I'd try the slash '/' for the file path separator character.

[jakhazell]

Thanks for the help but every time I try to do something it just crashes, (Im guessing its just a mac thing) the osx version seems pretty buggy. Does anyone know of any other video converting programs on osx that do the same thing?

[MilesAhead]

There are a bunch of development builds. I'm having good luck with R7389 on Windows for .mkv to .mp4. You could try a few builds and see if you get lucky with a stable one. Looking in the .mkv to .mp4 conversion database on this site the one I notice is Handbrake. I'm not versed in it but it may be worth a try. I see people recommend it highly on many forums though.

[jakhazell]

I finally found a program that does exactly what I want, Its called Mp4tools (previously MKVTools). But thanks for your help anyway.

[MilesAhead]

Thanks for posting what you found.