mm_tool, a multimedia tool

About

Handles lots of media files with ffpmeg as a batch. Useful for cleaning, consolidating, remuxing, and re-encoding media libraries.

Installation

gem install mm_tool should do the trick.

Change log

• 0.1.0

  • Initial release.

• 0.1.1

  • Fix to gemspec.

• 0.1.2

  • --ignore-titles is fixed.
  • Partially resolved the quality is interesting thing, but it's not a complete fix.
  • Fixed metadata for dropped streams.
  • Fix yaml wrapping.
  • Updated Gemfile dependencies.
  • Updated gemspec to not include certain bin files, which aren't needed and cause incompatibilities with other gems using same scaffold.
  • Updated readme.
  • Support multiple stream metadata changes.
  • Ensure we don't update metadata for streams we are dropping.

• 0.1.3

  • Natural sort order for directories with numbers, e.g., Season 1, … Season 19, Season 20.

• 0.1.4

  • Hot fix.

• 0.1.5

  • Updated for Ruby 2.7 compatibility.

• 0.1.6

  • Make ffmpeg output less verbose.
  • Don't do "slow" video conversions.

• 0.1.7

  • Added shell_commands user default, so that we can suppress the printing of the shell commands, such as when summarizing the work already performed.

• 0.1.8

  • Fix single quoting.

• 0.1.9

  • Add different encoder support.

• 0.1.10

  • Fix underscore issue.

• 0.1.11

  • Add force (re-encode) option.

• 0.1.12

  • Fix preference, shorten string.

• 0.1.13

  • Put the name of the temporary file at the end of output, so we don't have to scroll all the way to the top to find out what it is.
  • Plant a flag when we've touched a file.
  • For whole file:
    • MM_TOOL_ENCODED=true|false Set to true if any part of the file was transcoded.
    • MM_TOOL_WRITTEN=true|false Set to true if the file was written by mm_tool, for example, possibly nothing was transcoded, but streams were dropped or added. If EVERY stream is copy ONLY, then we don't apply this.
  • For streams:
  • MM_TOOL_ENCODED_STREAM=true|false Set to true if the stream is transcoded.