mconv

Photo Image and Video converter shrinker written in PHP for Mac OSX , Linux and possibly Windows

Video conversion is dependant on videolan ffmpeg binary,

Image conversion requieres GD php library

Dependancy

• PHP 7+
• GD extension
• ffmpeg for video conversion

This library can be used in other PHP projects or as standalone with mconv CLI tool , mconv stands for media converter

Main purpose of this tool is to save space but retain image and video quality

Installing

• brew install ffmpeg OSX
• composer require btesanovic/mconv

Usage

Lets say you want to save space by converting all video files to mp4 ( this is default video output format )

Example 1

• Input folder ~/Movies
• Input formats mpg avi mov
• Output format mp4
• -g Stands for glob , "*" matches all files , for example you could use "2018*" to match all files starting with file name 2018 that have any of extensions mentioned above mpg avi mov

Command

mconv -i ~/Movies -i "mpg,avi,mov" -o mp4 -g "*"

Example 2

Delete all originally converted files

• Input folder ~/Movies Command

mconv -i ~/Movies -d