Hi guys, I will try my best not to violate any of the forums rules with this post. I have a bunch of Quicktime .mov's that I own, and want to place on my iPod. They contain DRM and Sorenson Squeeze and Quicktime won't convert them. So far the best thing that will ignore the DRM is VLC, however there is no batch encoding and I have nearly a hundred files to encode. So I need an encoder that will both ignore the Quicktime DRM and has batch encode support. Any ideas? If I have violated the forum rules please let me know. Thanks.
To run a batch under VLC -converting mov to mp4 - I did the following: Assuming the files are in one folder, copy the batch file to the same folder and run it. The input files should not have spaces in the name e.g 'my file.mov' should be 'my_file.mov' Everything between the [ ] is copied to notepad and saved as "something.bat" [for %%a in (*.mov) do "c:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\VLC" -vvv %%a --sout=#transcode{vcodec=h264,vb=1024,scale=1,acodec=mp3,ab=192,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=%%a.mp4} vlc:quit] The values in red are the 'extension' of the source files, and the output codecs and bitrates and the 'extension of the output file - I only guessed at the values. I only have three .mov files on my PC to test the batch command, but I assume it will work on many more. Edited for clarity.
