avtc

Audio Video TransCoder - Batch transcodes Audio Video files to HEVC/Opus/ASS/Matroska.

Copyright 2013-2023 Curtis Lee Bolin CurtisLeeBolin@gmail.com

Documentation

Getting Started and Example Run

There are currently no releases

To install directly from GitHub

$ python -m pip install git+https://github.com/CurtisLeeBolin/avtc.git

Or download, extract, and install

$ cd avtc
$ python -m pip install .

Dependencies

• ffmpeg
• mkvpropedit (mkvtoolnix)

To view help

$ avtc --help
usage: avtc.py [-h] [--crop] [--deinterlace] [-d DIRECTORY] [-f FILELIST] [-t]

Audio Video TransCoder

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --crop                Auto Crop Videos
  --deinterlace         Deinterlace Videos
  -d DIRECTORY, --directory DIRECTORY
                        A directory
  -f FILELIST, --filelist FILELIST
                        File list in the current directory
  -t, --transcode       Force file/s to be transcoded

Copyright 2013-2023 Curtis Lee Bolin <CurtisLeeBolin@gmail.com>

Change to a directory with videos you want to transcode

To run avtc

$ avtc
01:21:25 Analyzing '2012 Vacation: Volcano'
01:22:14 Analysis completed in 0:00:00
         Duration: 02:01:36.75
         Input  Resolution: 1920x800
         Output Resolution: 1920x800
         Transcoding Started
encoded 173625 frames in 4940.02s (35.14 fps), 356.72 kb/s, Avg QP:35.31
02:43:42 Transcoding completed in 1:21:28

To run avtc with auto crop

$ avtc --crop
00:05:27 Analyzing '2012 Vacation: Beach'
00:06:13 Analysis completed in 0:00:46
         Duration: 01:30:31.26
         Input  Resolution: 1916x796
         Output Resolution: 1904x784
         Transcoding Started
encoded 130219 frames in 4511.67s (28.86 fps), 390.06 kb/s, Avg QP:32.91
01:21:24 Transcoding completed in 1:15:11

Output Format

• Video: HEVC (a.k.a. H.265 or MPEG-H Part 2)
• Audio: Opus
• Subtitles: ASS (SubStation Alph) text or Copied from Source (image subtitles)
• Metadata: title is set to the filename minus the file extension
• Container: Matroska