Bash script to convert video files into Google Chromecast supported format.
Simple bash script to convert video files into Google Chromecast supported format.
Script identifies video and audio format of given file (using mediainfo
) and converts it if necessary (using ffmpeg
).
Filename of output video file is <original_filename>.mkv
and original video file gets renamed to <original_filename>.bak
.
mediainfo
ffmpeg
Install requirements by running e.g. apt-get install ffmpeg mediainfo
(Debian) or brew install ffmpeg mediainfo
(MacOS with Homebrew).
./chromecastize.sh [--mp4 | --mkv | --stereo | --delete-on-success | --force-vencode | --force-aencode | --config=/path/to/config] <videofile1> [videofile2 ...]
./chromecastize.sh /Volumes/MyNAS
- converts all videos on your NAS (assuming that it's mounted to /Volumes/MyNAS
)./chromecastize.sh Holiday.avi Wedding.avi
- converts specified video files--mp4
forces conversion to MPEG-4 container--mkv
forces conversion to Matroska container--stereo
forces conversion from multichannel audio to 2 channel stereo--delete-on-success
deletes the original file on success instead of renaming it to <original_filename>.bak
--force-vencode
forces re-encoding of the video, if the codec is supported but the profile level is too high--force-aencode
forces re-encoding of the audio--config=/path/to/config
specify where to store configuration. When omitted the default folder ~/.chromecastize
is used.config.sh
file to your config folder (default location: ~/.chromecastize
).#
symbol.