hi!

i need help with a script resizing all kind of movies (avi or mpg)
full automatically to 700MB

my script i have right now only works with avi files

THX for help
SchwipSchwap

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my script:

#!/bin/bash

#*********************************************************************
#* WHAT YOU NEED: *
#* *
#* transcode tcprobe *
#* mplayer --> mencoder *
#* mp3lame / divx *
#* bc / perl / grep ... *
#* *
#*********************************************************************


#---------------------------------------------------------------------
#GET FILM LENGTH
#---------------------------------------------------------------------

tcprobe -i "$*" > movieinfo.tmp

FRAMES=`grep '\[avilib\] V:' movieinfo.tmp | \
perl -e ' $line=<STDIN> ; $line =~ /frames=(\d+)/ ; print $1' `

MIN_TOTAL=`echo "scale=0 ; ($FRAMES / 1440)"| bc -l`

#echo $MIN_TOTAL

rm movieinfo.tmp -f

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# GET MAX VIDEO BITRATE
#---------------------------------------------------------------------

MAXSIZE=700000

SEGUNDOS=$(($MIN_TOTAL*60))
MINUTOS=$MIN_TOTAL

#Audio rate is 128bits/s which is 16kbytes/s
AUDIOSIZE=$((16*$SEGUNDOS))
LIBRE=$(($MAXSIZE - $AUDIOSIZE))
RATE=$((($LIBRE*8) / $SEGUNDOS))

echo $RATE

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# ENCODE MOVIE
#---------------------------------------------------------------------

#mencoder "$*" -ovc lavc \
# -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=$RATE \
# -vop scale -zoom -xy 640 -oac mp3lame \
# -lameopts abr:br=128 -o "$*".resize.avi

well it's just a case of bitrates.... take the length in seconds and multiply it by the bitrate to get the expected file size, then manipulate the bitrate accordingly.

if you look at http://acidrip.sf.net you can see how I do it for dvd's.

thx my problem is how i can figure out the length of the movie
automatically

does the header from avi and mpg contain the length?

are there any tools with easy parseable print?