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.