Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello, I was inquiring myself if it's possible to call ffmpeg in loop, an in each iteration, ffmpeg will pick one of the files in a directory and produce a new with a slightest different name. Can be as simple as a '*' in the beginning of the file name.

I know how to use ffmpeg to do the modifications that I want, my doubts are how to read all files through the loop, and how to tell ffmpeg that the output file name should be the same as the input plus some modification.

Thanks for your time.

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Hello colt,


You can certainly make a loop based on a list of files read from a single or multiple directories dependant on your need. You then just need to call ffmpeg referring to each file in turn.

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Robin