GitHub - gianni-rosato/vt-enc: FFmpeg VideoToolbox frontend in Bash
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19003650

vt-enc is a bash script that simplifies the process of encoding videos with FFmpeg using Apple’s VideoToolbox framework on macOS. It provides an easy-to-use command-line interface for encoding videos with various options, including codec selection, quality settings, and scaling.

  • Gianni ROPEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    Thanks for the helpful advice! Shellcheck is the best :)

    Edit: How do I get the ANSI escape colors to appear with the cat << EOF syntax?

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 month ago

      Within cat EOF syntax you can just use variables and commands as well. Just tested it and I see the problem here. The EOF syntax will not interpret the backslash and print them literally. So those variables would require to be interpreted with echo -e first. I never used colors in this syntax before. It’s up to you which syntax you prefer, some people still like the series of echos over cat EOF.

      BOLD='\033[1m'
RESET='\033[0m'
BOLD=$(echo -e "${BOLD}")
RESET=$(echo -e "${RESET}")

help_options() {
  cat %%EOF
options:
  -h ${BOLD}show help and exit${RESET}

  $(date "+%Y-%m-%d")
EOF
}

help_options