Find dts file with ffmpeg

[Chris9090]

Hallo together,

I'M searching for code that can filter my files to dts.

Actual I take this code to convert dts to ac3.

for /R %%a in ("\*.mkv") do (ffmpeg -y -i "%%\~a" -map 0 -vcodec copy -scodec copy -acodec ac3 -b:a 640k "%%\~dpna\_AC3.mkv" )

The problem is I have files with .mkv without dts-codec. How can I filter it?

Thanks for your help.

Greetings

[hello_hello]

-acodec ac3 tells ffmpeg to convert the audio to AC3. It shouldn't matter what type of audio the MKV contains. Or do I not understand what you're asking?

[Chris9090]

Tahnks for your answer.

I just want to convert dts-files and keep the other codecs as they are.

[sambat]

This thread shows how to have ffmpeg use a text file list to process a bunch of files.

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/328303-software-that-indexes-a-drive-to-create-an-...tch-conversion

This link below downloads 'Playtime' which can open a folder of files and list the audio codecs used.
The codec column can be sorted to group same codecs together.
The group of files can be hi-lighted and saved as a text file which ffmpeg may be able to use.
I haven't tried this and I would defer to jagabo who modified the original bat file in the thread

https://www.free-codecs.com/playtime_download.htm

[sneaker]

Try something like:

for /R %%a in (*.mkv) do ffmpeg -y -i "%%~a" 2>&1 | find "Audio: dts" && ffmpeg -i "%%~a" -map 0 -c:v copy -c:a ac3 -b:a 640k -c:s copy "%%\~dpna\_AC3.mkv"

(This ignores files without dts.)

[Chris9090]

Thank you very much for your answer.
That is very good, thank you very much.

Now I wanted to go one step further and rename all video files that have a dts codec to "*_dts" beforehand.
In the next step, I would then convert them and remove the "_dts" at the end of the new file. This way I could then search for all files with _dts and remove them afterwards.

Perhaps you can help me further here?

[sneaker]

for /R %%a in (*.mkv) do ffmpeg -i "%%~a" 2>&1 | find "Audio: dts" && ren "%%~a" "%%~na_dts.mkv" && ffmpeg -y -i "%%~dpna_dts.mkv" -map 0 -c:v copy -c:a ac3 -b:a 640k -c:s copy "%%~dpna_AC3.mkv"

[Chris9090]

Thank you very much for your answer.

Everything that does not have DTS is already skipped correctly.

However, I am unfortunately still getting a syntax error. Is it possible that this is related to the renaming of the file?

[sneaker]

/edit:
I think I have it fixed. Try again. (ren does not accept absolute path as 2nd parameter, only a filename)

[Chris9090]

This is the last error message.

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I try it with this

for /R %%a in (*.mkv) do ffmpeg -y -i "%%~a" 2>&1 | find "Audio: dts" && ren "%%~dpna" "%%~na_dts.mkv" && ffmpeg -i "%%~a_dts.mkv" -map 0 -c:v copy -c:a ac3 -b:a 640k -c:s copy "%%\~dpna\_AC3.mkv"

And then I get: The system cannot find the specified file.

[sneaker]

My edit and your post overlapped. Try again with my updated version.

[Chris9090]

Thats the perfect code. Thanks for all.

[visualblind]

Thank you very much for your answer.
That is very good, thank you very much.

Now I wanted to go one step further and rename all video files that have a dts codec to "*_dts" beforehand.
In the next step, I would then convert them and remove the "_dts" at the end of the new file. This way I could then search for all files with _dts and remove them afterwards.

Perhaps you can help me further here?

Although not exactly what you're asking for, this will output to stdout a list of files along with their audio codecs, without writing or renaming anything. This is in sh/bash for any non-Windows users.

ffprobe-acodec.sh

find . -depth -maxdepth 2 -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*\.mkv$|.*\.mp4$' -type f -exec bash -c 'echo "{}" $(ffprobe -loglevel error -select_streams a:0 -show_entries stream=codec_name -of default=nw=1:nk=1 "{}")' \;

I use a filesystem watcher to look for media files that contain anything other than the AAC audio codec and transcode it accordingly, overwriting the original media file. Directory paths need to be altered to use it:

ffmpeg-inotify-transcode-acodec.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
inotifywait -m /mnt/pool0/p0ds0smb/temp/ffmpeg-inotify/. -e close_write -e moved_to |
  while read dir action file; do
    if [[ "$file" =~ ^.*\.(mp4|mkv)$ ]]; then
      bash -c "/mnt/pool0/p0ds0smb/visualblind/Documents/Scripts/linux/ffmpeg_tcode_compat.sh -d /mnt/pool0/p0ds0smb/temp/ffmpeg-inotify -w /mnt/pool0/p0ds0smb/temp/ffmpeg-inotify/.working | /usr/bin/logger -t 'ffmpeg-inotify-transcode-acodec.sh'";
    fi;
  done

ffmpeg_tcode_compat.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
## DESCRIPTION: Transcode with FFmpeg all (mkv, mp4) media files in specified directory,
##              overwriting the original source files.
##
## AUTHOR:  Travis Runyard
## Revised: 10/31/2020
## URL:     https://sysinfo.io/ffmpeg-batch-transcode-audio/

# Exit on first non-zero exit code
set -e
# Set shell options
shopt -s globstar
shopt -u nullglob
# Declare variables (optionally) are indexed arrays
# Only associative arrays require declaration, but standardizing is a good thing
declare -a FILENAME
declare -a LOG

# Modify TEMPDIR and WORKDIR to suit your needs
TEMPDIR="/mnt/pool0/p0ds0smb/temp/ffmpeg"
WORKDIR="$TEMPDIR/.working"
SCRIPT_NAME=$(basename "$0")

usage()
{
  cat 1>&2 <<EOF
Usage: "$SCRIPT_NAME" [options]

-h| --help         Help shows this message.
-d| --directory    Specify the directory to process.
-w| --workdir      Writable working directory for FFmpeg.
                   If you don't specify this option, the
                   subdirectory named "working" will be used
                   within the --directory path or \$TEMPDIR.
EOF
}

while [ "$1" != "" ]; do
    case $1 in
        -d | --directory )	shift
                                TEMPDIR="${1:-$TEMPDIR}"
                                WORKDIR="$WORKDIR"
                                ;;
        -w | --workdir )	shift
                                WORKDIR="${1:-$WORKDIR}"
                                ;;
        -h | --help )           usage
                                exit 0
                                ;;
        * )                     usage
                                exit 1
    esac
    shift
done

cd $TEMPDIR
echo -e "*** DEBUG ***\n\$TEMPDIR = $TEMPDIR\n\$WORKDIR = $WORKDIR"
[ -d "$WORKDIR" ] || mkdir "$WORKDIR"
# Set field separator to newline
OIFS="$IFS"
IFS=$'\n'
FILENAME=($(find . ! -path "*$(basename "$WORKDIR")/*" -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*\.(mkv|mp4)$' -type f -print))
if [ -n "$FILENAME" ]; then
  for f in "${FILENAME[@]}"; do
    LOG+=("$f")
    AUDIOFORMAT=($(ffprobe -loglevel error -select_streams a:0 -show_entries stream=codec_name,channels -of default=nw=1:nk=1 "$f"))
  	if ! [ "${AUDIOFORMAT[0]}" = "aac" ]; then
# Build ffmpeg array within the loop to populate variables
      args=(
      -nostdin
      -y
      -i "$f"
      -default_mode infer_no_subs
      -map 0:v:0
      -map 0:a
      -map 0:s:m:language:eng?
      -map 0:s:m:language:ger?
      -map 0:s:m:language:spa?
      -map 0:s:m:language:fre?
      -map 0:s:m:language:ita?
      -map 0:s:m:language:jpn?
      -map 0:s:m:language:kor?
      -map 0:s:m:language:por?
      -map 0:s:m:language:vie?
      -map 0:s:m:language:chi?
      -ac "${AUDIOFORMAT[1]}"
      -ar 48000
      -metadata:s:a:0 language=eng
      -metadata:s:a:0 title=
      -map_chapters -1
      -dn
      -bsf:v "filter_units=remove_types=6"
      -movflags faststart
      -c:v copy
      -c:a aac
      -c:s copy
      "$WORKDIR/$(basename "$f")"
      )
      echo -e "*** DEBUG: ffprobe detected '${AUDIOFORMAT[0]}' in the default audio stream with '${AUDIOFORMAT[1]}' channels\nPreparing to convert audio codec to AAC..." ; sleep 1
      echo -e "*** DEBUG: ffmpeg ${args[@]}"
      ffmpeg "${args[@]}" || break
      echo -e "*** DEBUG: Moving '$WORKDIR/$(basename "$f")' back to source directory name '$(dirname "$f")'"; sleep 1
      mv -f -v "$WORKDIR/$(basename "$f")" "$(dirname "$f")" || break
    fi
  done
  printf '*** DEBUG ***\nPROCESSED:%s\n'
  for i in "${LOG[@]}"; do echo "$i"; done
else
  echo -e "*** DEBUG: No files to process"
fi

[peval]

for /R %%a in (*.mkv) do ffmpeg -i "%%~a" 2>&1 | find "Audio: dts" && ren "%%~a" "%%~na_dts.mkv" && ffmpeg -y -i "%%~dpna_dts.mkv" -map 0 -c:v copy -c:a ac3 -b:a 640k -c:s copy "%%~dpna_AC3.mkv"

Hello there!
I am just pasting the above command into terminal on my Mac where i have installed ffmpeg via homebrew, but I get parse error near /R, which is at the very beginning
The above command is quite long and it is not fully clear to me what it is supposed to do.
I would like a command to run ffmpeg in a given folder, so that it parses all video files (not just mkv), including files in subfolders, and if any audio stream is DTS, it automatically convert to AC3 and eventually add a '_converted' text tag at the end of the file name.
Could you help?
Many thanks!!
Peval