[TriLUG] suggestions for uploading many gigs of video

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Jeremy Davis via TriLUG wrote:

> Compression sounds like a good idea and I could probably figure out a way
> to compress multiple files at once. My camera makes .MTS format files.
> Hopefully that will convert to MP4.

This changes a 4G MTS file to 700M of mp4. The resulting mp4 works in a webpage 
when viewed by chrome, firefox and safari.

Joe

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$ more /usr/bin/mts2mp4.sh

#! /bin/bash

#$1 is filestem

#converts MTS to mp4 file

input=$1.MTS
output=$1.mp4

#http://superuser.com/questions/750811/convert-avi-into-h-264-that-works-inside-an-html5-v
ideo-tag

ffmpeg -i $input -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p $output

touch -r $input $output

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