[MPlayer-users] Batch Encoding?

[Phil Oleynik]

Kichigai Mentat wrote:

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> Does anyone know if MEncoder supports batch processing? I have a  
> rather large load of video files, and I'm looking to take them from  
> DV to XviD, but I'd rather not have to create a command line for each  
> one.
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> I've searched the MPlayer MAN page and the online documentation (as  
> well as Google) and have been unable to find anything more than a  
> JAVA app for batch changing ID3 tags.
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> Thank you for any help. 

First :)
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html

AFAIK, mencoder cannot do that. But why let Movie Encoder bother with 
file management?
It is much simplier to make bash call mencoder for files you wish to 
process, or if process
settings vary in a great weird way, you maybe will need Perl to 
construct mencoder command line.

I'm usually satisfied with simple bash's "for" loop control statement. 
If some problems appear,
I may assist in writing a .sh file.

Philipp