Questions tagged [handbrakecli]
13 questions
2
votes
1 answer
Bash While loop read file by line exit on certain line
I'm writing a simple Bash script that simply the call of HadnBrakeCli for render videos.
I also implemented a simple queue option: the queue file just store the line-command it has to call to start a render.
So I wrote a while-loop to read one line…

Andrea Magnani
- 23
- 4
1
vote
1 answer
Speed up hardcoding subs with ffmpeg vs handbrake
I have a video that i need to hardcode subtitles for legacy devices so I usually use ffmpeg for this and it works fine but its so slow.
This is the command i usually use.
ffmpeg -i test-cut.mp4 -vf "subtitles=test-cut.srt" -c:v libx264 -crf 24…

Grimeire
- 339
- 1
- 6
- 19
1
vote
1 answer
Multiple audio tracks with handbrake
Trying to encode video in a fairly generalized manner a typical call will look like:
HandBrakeCLI --encoder-preset medium --encoder-level 4.1 --format av_mkv --encoder x264 --quality 21 --aencoder aac,ac3 --audio-copy-mask aac,ac3,dtshd,dts,mp3 -a…

Ewan Walker
- 184
- 1
- 1
- 11
1
vote
0 answers
I'm not able to execute HandBrakeCLI sh script through php program
I have a sh file named test.sh
SRC=/var/www/html/plms/video/
DEST=/var/www/html/plms/mp4files/
DEST_EXT=mp4
HANDBRAKE_CLI=HandBrakeCLI
for FILE in `ls $SRC`
do
filename=$(basename $FILE)
extension=${filename##*.}
…

Sunita Kunwar
- 13
- 3
0
votes
1 answer
Remove red text verbose in handBrake CLI
I created a script to run HandBrakeCLI and I would like to know if there is any argument that I could use to avoid all verbose in red text, like pic attached.
I read the documentation and I did not find anything to reduce verbose.

MPenner
- 23
- 3
0
votes
0 answers
Trying to install handbrake CLI but I keep getting a gstreamer install issue. Do I have add some additional ppa for this?
I am on an ubuntu-18.04 machine.
Firstly I am adding the handbrake ppa repository in this manner
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:stebbins/handbrake-releases
Post that I am running the installation using the following commands
sudo apt -y update
sudo…

Abhishek Bose
- 140
- 5
0
votes
1 answer
handbrakecli/ffmpeg command to encode and auto filename(Ubuntu)
I have 2 preset .json files(from the GUI version on windows) to convert mkv to mp4.
converts to h264 and adds subtitle 1
converts to h264
I'm only trying to get no.2 to work at this stage.
for i in `*.mkv`; do HandBrakeCLI --preset-import-file…

Michaelp
- 31
- 3
0
votes
2 answers
Bash script do loop exiting early
I am having a frustrating time. I have written a script which should read a file line by line, and do an operation based on that line. Specifically, I'm using handbrake CLI to convert a partial directory (based on a file list) to another smaller…

Joel K
- 13
- 1
- 4
0
votes
0 answers
Force PHP to passthrough numbers in original format
Im using PHP import_json to open a JSON file, then export_json to output just the first item as another JSON file (essentially splitting one long JSON job list into individual jobs) but I'm having a problem where somewhere along the line numbers…
0
votes
1 answer
HandbrakeCLI unrecognized file type
I am trying to setup a simple batch file to use handbrake to compress videos. I had Handbrake installed and saw that I needed to install HandbrakeCLI separately. I downloaded HandBrakeCLI.exe and placed it on C:\. I then made a preset and set it as…

RossV
- 195
- 3
- 12
0
votes
1 answer
Find files and HandBrakeCLI convert in a single line
Not sure if this is possible...
I'm trying to write a terminal command (linux) that would find all video files with a specific extension and then convert them using HandBrakeCLI
I have the first half of that down:
find . -type f -name "*.avi*"…

Chase Westlye
- 381
- 2
- 6
- 20
0
votes
1 answer
Green frames / no subtitles in converted files of watching directory (Powershell) using HandbrakeCLI + JSON preset
So I needed a script that watches a directory and converts files using HandbrakeCLI. I found a part of this powershell here on stackoverflow and I adjusted some things for my project.
$global:watch = "C:\~\cmp\" ### watching…
user5609622
0
votes
1 answer
HandbrakeCLI command lines
I'm trying to convert DVD iso files to mp4 using HandbrakeCLI. I use the following line in a batch file:
D:\HandBrakeCLI.exe -i "D:\input.iso" -o "D:\output.mp4" --no-markers --width "720" --height "480" --preset "HQ 480p30 Surround" --encoder…

RealFL
- 117
- 4
- 11