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Hello,

I would like to execute a command ('ffmpeg'), against each file in a given directory, and record stderr to a log file. Additionaly, if possible, I'd like to insert the name of the current file into the log file. I'm trying to run through some sample conversions to determine the proportion that generate errors.

Cheers!

Neal

Hi,

Are you sure you want to run the ffmpeg command on all files in the directory and not on files with specific extension(s) ?

Hi Neal,

I have written an initial script. Give the directory name as a command line argument:

eg. ./script.sh /home/neal/ffmpeg-data



Please verify if this script works for you.

Thanks Lijeesh, the script worked well!

I made a few additions to the script:
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#!/bin/bash

FFMPEG='ffmpeg -i' # Replace with correct options
LOG_FILE='ffmpeg.log' # Replace with correct log file
OPTIONS='-s 320x240 -vcodec flv -ar 44100 -b 600000 -y script_test.flv'

if [ ! -f $LOG_FILE ]
then
touch $LOG_FILE
fi

for file in $(find $1)
do
if [ -f $file ]
then
err_msg=$($FFMPEG $file $OPTIONS 2>&1)
else
continue
fi
len=$(expr length "$err_msg")
if [ $len -gt 0 ]
then
echo -e "\n\n$file ::::::::\n $err_msg" >> $LOG_FILE
fi
err_msg=''
done

exit

Lijeesh,

How can I modify this script to only execute on .mov, .mwv, .mpg extensions?

Thanks,

Neal

Hi Neal,

It can be easily achieved by modifying the 'find' command in the 'for ' loop.

Change the line "for file in $(find $1)" as follows :

for file in $(find $1 -name "*.mpg" -o -name "*.mov" -o -name "*.mwv")

If you need to add more extensions ( say .wmv ), just do it with appending -o -name "*.wmv" to the find command.