I have several thousand TV shows, a bunch of movies, etc. Most of them are in x264 or xvid or something like that. I would like to, over time, convert everything to x265 to save on some space. It has been a LONG time since I have done anything with video like this so I have no idea what apps are good these days.
What is the best program to do this? Ideally I could run this program by command line, that way I could automate this to a degree. I want to set up a couple standard profiles (like ones for SD, 720p, 1080p, etc) so basically if my source file is 1080p it will use the 1080p profile I set, all the 720p videos will all use the 720p profile, etc.
Basically I will write up some scripts or something that would use something to profile the video, see what res it is, and then it would generate the right command lines to pass to the compression program.
Questions:
What is the best program to do this? Ideally I could run this program by command line, that way I could automate this to a degree. I want to set up a couple standard profiles (like ones for SD, 720p, 1080p, etc) so basically if my source file is 1080p it will use the 1080p profile I set, all the 720p videos will all use the 720p profile, etc.
Basically I will write up some scripts or something that would use something to profile the video, see what res it is, and then it would generate the right command lines to pass to the compression program.
Questions:
- What is a good app to do the compression itself, and preferably I can operate it entirely by command line
- Is there an app that I can use to profile videos, like see what res they are / etc, that can run on a command line?