Woo, so to convert all my video files to FLV, I had decided to use ffmpeg. The issue was that all this was happening on a Windows PC. I faced the grim reality:
I need to recursively span directories and pass all movie files to ffmpeg
Pretty simple really… as a Perl or bash script… people could vote me off the Internet for posting such a silly event in a tech blog. But as I mentioned earlier, I was on Windows. Without Perl.
These are deep waters, Jeeves
-Bertram Wooster to Jeeves in “Very Good, Jeeves!”
Fortunately for me, a command to parse directories for specific file extensions is available in DOS. God is great, and so is Microsoft, sometimes.
So here goes,
for /R %A in ("*.avi" "*.mpg" ") do ffmpeg <options> -i %A %A.flv
With the power of for command (lots of switches and options available) and its combination with if command to prune the results, I see a lot of stuff that can be done right here in MS Dos. Not that I’d be keen to do it, but if time comes, Google and DOS won’t be a bad deal, I believe.