The script takes in a path as the first argument where the video files that need processing are saved. Make sure to enclose the path with quotation marks.
./script.sh "/path/to/directory"
Before running the script, you might need to assign executable permissions chmod +x script.sh.
The script changes the default IFS to a new line (\n) character, then at the end it restores the original IFS. This is because inside a for loop, if the directory path has spaces, the terminal will split the path string into multiple lines, thus, creating an invalid path. By changing the IFS to a new line character, the splitting will happen at the end of the string.
The first step is to copy the original taken timestamp into the "created" and "modified" metadata using the exiftool tool.
The second step is to transcode video files taken with HVEC (H.265) encoding to H.264 since Synology Photos cannot play or index videos encoded with HVEC. For this step, the script uses ffmpeg tool.
The transcoded video file will have the same name as the original file, but with _out string appended at the end and it will be created in the same directory as the original video file.
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-Esau