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Bash script to encode videos with ffmpeg to under discord's 8MiB file limit
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#!/bin/bash | |
# discordencode - encodes a video file to under 8MiB for Discord | |
usage () { | |
echo "Usage: [NOAUDIO=1] [VPRESET=x264-preset] discordencode input output.mp4" | |
} | |
if [ -z "$1" ] | |
then | |
usage | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
if [ -z "$2" ] | |
then | |
usage | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then | |
echo "$1 does not exist" | |
exit 2 | |
fi | |
# Bitrate math functions | |
# Bc and ffprobe are a bit arcane | |
duration_seconds () { | |
ffprobe -i "$1" -show_entries format=duration -v quiet -of csv="p=0" | |
} | |
subtract_and_truncate () { | |
echo "x = $1; scale = 0; x / 1 - $2" | bc -l | |
} | |
divide_floats() { | |
echo "scale=2; $1 / $2" | bc | |
} | |
audioargs="-c:a aac -b:a 128k" | |
audiobits=128 | |
if [[ $NOAUDIO ]] && [ "$NOAUDIO" -eq "1" ] | |
then | |
audioargs="-an" | |
audiobits=0 | |
echo "Using no audio" | |
fi | |
if [ -z "$VPRESET" ] | |
then | |
VPRESET=veryslow | |
fi | |
duration=$(duration_seconds "$1") | |
echo $1 | |
echo Duration is $duration | |
kbits=$(subtract_and_truncate $(divide_floats 45473.1 $duration) $audiobits) | |
echo Video bitrate is $kbits kb/s | |
set -x | |
ffmpeg -y -i "$1" -c:v libx264 -preset $VPRESET -threads 0 -b:v ${kbits}k -pass 1 -an -f mp4 /dev/null | |
ffmpeg -i "$1" -c:v libx264 -preset $VPRESET -threads 0 -b:v ${kbits}k -pass 2 $audioargs "$2" |
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Appreciate you for forking and modifying it for me!