animethemes-batch-encoder/README.md

Description

Generate and execute collection of FFmpeg commands sequentially from external file to produce WebMs that meet AnimeThemes.moe encoding standards.

Take advantage of sleep, work, or any other time that we cannot actively monitor the encoding process to produce a set of encodes for later quality checking and/or tweaking for additional encodes.

Ideally we are iterating over a combination of filters and settings, picking the best one at the end.

Install

Requirements:

• FFmpeg
• Python >= 3.6

Install:

pip install animethemes-batch-encoder

Usage

    python -m batch_encoder [-h] --mode [{1,2,3}] [--file [FILE]] [--configfile [CONFIGFILE]] --loglevel [{debug,info,error}]

• --mode 1: Generates commands from input files in the current directory. User will be prompted for inclusion/exclusion of input file, start time, end time and output file name.
• --mode 2: Execute commands from file line-by-line in the current directory.
• --mode 3: Generate commands from input files in the current directory in the same manner as Mode 1 and then execute commands without writing to file.
• [FILE]: The file that commands are written to or read from. Default: commands.txt in the current directory. Unused in --mode 3.
• [CONFIGFILE]: The configuration file in which our properties are defined. Default: batch_encoder.ini written to the same directory as the batch_encoder.py script.
• AllowedFileTypes: Configuration property for file extensions that will be considered source file candidates
• EncodingModes: Configuration property for the inclusion and order of encoding modes {CBR, VBR, CQ}
• CRFs: Configuration property for the ordered list of CRF values to use with VBR and/or CQ encoding modes
• IncludeUnfiltered: Configuration property that sets the flag for including/excluding an encode without video filters for each EncodingMode
• VideoFilters: Configuration items used for named video filtergraphs
• --loglevel error: Only show error messages
• --loglevel info: Show error messages and script progression info messages
• --loglevel debug: Show all messages, including variable dumps