Libav Transcoder Script

libav.h264.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Copyright 2013 Typomedia Foundation. All rights reserved.
# Released under GPL version 3.
#
# Libav Transcoder Script v1.0beta

EXEC=/usr/bin/avconv
INPUT=/mnt/media/Movies
FTYPE=*.rip.mkv

cd $INPUT
# Transcode all files with the specified FTYPE
for FILE in $FTYPE
  # transcode video stream and copy all audio streams and all subtitles
  do $EXEC -i "$FILE" -map 0 -c:v libx264 -preset slow -crf 20 -c:a copy -c:s copy "${FILE%%.*}.mkv"
done