tidying-cli v0.2.1

tidying-cli

This tool uniformly transcodes video files into a consistent MP4 format.

Status

This project is currently pre-alpha. Currently working on overall class architecture. Initial tests of conversion / media detection are successful.

I'm planning on implementing an architecture similar to the following:

• classes to model videos, formats, codecs, and streams
• a configuration file parser
• a planner that can determine the desired end state of a given video, stream, etc. based on the specified configuration and can generate a diff of what needs to change to transform the original
• an executor that takes the diff and applies it using one or more manipulators (using a tool like ffmpeg, a JS-based manipulator, etc)
• surrounding helper scripts for post-processing, interacting with a cli, etc.

History

This project took its initial inspiration from sickbeard_mp4_automator, a Python-based project with a similar goal. clu was built to port the functionality of sickbeard_mp4_automator to Node.js, rearchitect and rewrite the entire application, and implement a modular plugin system to allow expansion.

As it took its original inspiration from sickbeard_mp4_automator, here are a few potential feature requests / PRs that may be potentially interesting to this project:

• consider fixing audio gain when downsampling (#219)
• look into detecting and enabling hardware acceleration if available (#277, #431)
• add detailed stream manipulation (like ability to keep certain streams in addition to transcoded ones, specify their order, etc.)
• add ability to strip metadata, chapters, certain stream types, etc
• add pluggable filters (process files based on extension, stream type, etc.)
• add option to keep original file timestamp
• look into embedding subtitles in other languages
• potentially add Handbrake as a manipulator if the source file is an ISO

License

See LICENSE file.