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Motivation:

Digital cameras and phones typically save video to MOV (Motion JPEG) files. I share my photos & videos via a self hosted open source photo gallery (zenPhoto). MOV files must be converted to a compatible format like MP4 to stream through the readily available web video players like Flowplayer.

Script features:

• Handles multiple files at once… even from different folders, e.g. when part of a file explorer search result
• Applies rotation where recognized in the EXIF metadata.
• Touches new file datestamp to be same as original.

Leverages 3rd party tools:

• [FileMenu Tools (FMT)][4] - handy for creating a FileExplorer right mouse context menu for executing transcode on selected files
• See new free approach for the Context Menu piece
• HandBrake - read something that suggested HandBrake is faster than ffmpeg and that appears true on my quick comparison
• MediaInfo - pulls the EXIF metadata to determine if any rotation is necessary

Install:

1. save transcode.ps1 to a known location
2. install FileMenu Tools and disable all the commands you don’t want.
3. Configure a “transcode” command as shown in screenshot below… edit for your path

• updated FMT Arguments: -Command "{path}\transcode.ps1" -list %TEMPFILEPATHS% -rotate auto

1. install HandBrake and put HandBrakeCli in your path
2. minimally, put MediaInfo.exe and MediaInfo.dll in your path

Windows File Explorer UI example